POSIX bashing (readline bashing)

Paul Barton-Davis pauld at stowe.cs.washington.edu
Thu Apr 11 02:43:00 AEST 1991


expectorant is not derived from "expect", but from "pectoral". the
term refers to a compound which will tend to encourage the departure
of material from the upper chest ("pectoral region"), hence,
ex-pector-ant.

at least, that's one meaning.

-- 
Paul Barton-Davis			<pauld at cs.washington.edu>
UW Computer Science Lab		``to shatter tradition makes us feel free''



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