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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

Hello, Ron.

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:46:22PM +1000, Ron Clarke wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:04:00 -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> > I finally figured it out. By "SW", you mean "Slackware".
> > Thanks for letting me in on the secret.
>
> > http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?Acronym=SW&Find=fin
> > d&string=exact
>
>   <snipped>
>
> > Not everyone here has a background in slackware.
>
>   No, but BasicLinux is based very much on Slackware
> distributions, and the acronym "SW", especially when written
> as SW4, SW7.1, SW8.1, SW9.1 etc., has been used on this list
> pretty much from the beginning.

That was the only time I'd seen it. I've just been using "4.0"
(for example) by itself, assuming that everyone would know that I
was referring to slackware _because_ that's what BL is based on.
And everyone understood me just fine.

>  Don't blame Sindi for using it. If anything, you might blame
> us all for not making it clear to good folks joining the list,
> and it might have saved you what appears to have been baffling
> jargon.
>
>   On behalf of all of us, I do apologise for not making it
>   clear sooner.

Thanks. I probably _should_ have seen it myself. It's obvious
now.

> > This is a technical computer forum, and it is difficult
> > enough to keep track of all the _thousands_ of acronyms that
> > already exisst without people making them up on a whim.
>
>    True, it is a technical forum based around a specialised
> distro, in turn based on Slackware. And I don't think Sindi was
> the first to use it.

More than anything I was miffed about having my post (seemingly)
ignored after spending so much time with a search engine trying
to find a reference to the mysterious "SW8.1 compiler".

And perhaps a little embaressed....

Thanks again, Ron, and take it easy. Sindi and I have been
chatting, and everything is OK there, I hope. I was wrong.

Had to happen some day ;-)


Lee