2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
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biff
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/bif/ , vt. [now rare] To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD
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utility biff (1) , which was in turn named after a friendly dog who used to
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chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while 4.2BSD was in development. There
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was a legend that it had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but
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the author of biff says this is not true. No relation to B1FF.
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