Aucbarpa.1143 net.followup utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:olson Thu Apr 15 15:06:41 1982 Re: more etymology i always thought it was "Delete from SWitches," from back in the days when the inode of the file to be deleted had to be toggled in on the console switches... i could be wrong, i guess. who cares? mikey (mikey olson, ucbvax!olson) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.