[Samba] Re: OT: Is "Samba" an acronym?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Mar 3 17:34:58 GMT 2005


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Daniel Ramaley wrote:
| On Thursday 03 March 2005 11:04 am, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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|>JLB wrote:
|>| Is Samba an acronym? Below it's written
|>| in all-caps (i.e. "SAMBA"). Should it be thus?
|>
|>The (true) urban legend is thus:
|>
|>$ grep -i ^s.*m.*b.* /usr/share/dict/words
|
|
| I must be really dense today; i don't get it. I
| ran that command and got  a list of 40 words, few
| with any obvious connection to Samba. Was it
| supposed to return just one word?

in the dictionary Andrew had at the time,
samba was included.  It was the only word
that came back that had a rhythm to it (pardon
the pun).




cheers, jerry

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