faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel Faigin) (05/01/85)
Here's a new topic for discussion. What are your favorite
nonsense words tha you tend to use for temporary files.
Personally, I tend to use words such as "gorf", "fnord", "temp",
or the ubiquitous "x". Many people tend to use variations of:
"fubar.tmp"
"foo.bar"
"bar.foo"
and so on. One person I know at UCLA tends to use "blah", hence
his temps are often called "blah.foo"
What about you??
Daniel
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Usually, I use 'hoio'. I'm not really sure where this comes from, but it is a greeting often heard in old dutch sailor songs. Also, 'hoioio', 'hihi' (laughing sound), 'haha' and 'hoho' are favorites. This has gone so far that on system 'htsa' (which I manage), the crontab file contains executes a shellscript every night which removes files with those names all across the filesystems, and subsequently I have encouraged everyone to use filenames of this form. -- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP The shell is my oyster.
nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) (05/07/85)
> Here's a new topic for discussion. What are your favorite > nonsense words tha you tend to use for temporary files. > Personally, I tend to use words such as "gorf", "fnord", "temp", > or the ubiquitous "x". Many people tend to use variations of: > "fubar.tmp" > "foo.bar" > "bar.foo" > and so on. One person I know at UCLA tends to use "blah", hence > his temps are often called "blah.foo" > > What about you?? > *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** My favorites: this that these those them "cat this > that" or "vi this" always apealed to my sense of the unusual. From the alter ego of-- Kchula-Rrit
wfmans@ihuxb.UUCP (w. mansfield) (05/07/85)
> Here's a new topic for discussion. What are your favorite > nonsense words tha you tend to use for temporary files. > Personally, I tend to use words such as "gorf", "fnord", "temp", > or the ubiquitous "x". Many people tend to use variations of: > "fubar.tmp" > "foo.bar" > "bar.foo" > and so on. One person I know at UCLA tends to use "blah", hence > his temps are often called "blah.foo" > > What about you?? > > Daniel > -- I like junk as a suffix, since that's what most of my files are: what.junk job.junk utter.junk plan.junk stupid.junk VAX.junk 3B2.junk car.junk You get the idea. Bill Mansfield AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxb!wfmans -- Bill Mansfield AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxb!wfmans
ewok@ucbvax.ARPA (Lisa Rodgin) (05/09/85)
"derf" and "fred". (look at your keyboard and you will understand why. "blatz" is also a popular one, compliments of a graduate student who ta'ed one of my courses. -lisa
jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) (05/12/85)
> Here's a new topic for discussion. What are your favorite > nonsense words tha you tend to use for temporary files. > Personally, I tend to use words such as "gorf", "fnord", "temp", > or the ubiquitous "x". Many people tend to use variations of: > "fubar.tmp" > "foo.bar" > "bar.foo" > and so on. One person I know at UCLA tends to use "blah", hence > his temps are often called "blah.foo" > > What about you?? > > Daniel > -- I usually use either "swazoo" or "koolak". I invented the name "Swazoo Koolak" several years ago when I needed some test data. Somewhere along the line I started using it as my pseudonym. Sometimes I use "pribanic" or "zvonko". The name "Pribanic Zvonko" actually appeared in the San Francisco phone book once. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff
dk@sdlvax.UUCP (dk) (05/16/85)
> > Here's a new topic for discussion. What are your favorite > > nonsense words tha you tend to use for temporary files. > > Personally, I tend to use words such as "gorf", "fnord", "temp", > > or the ubiquitous "x". Many people tend to use variations of: > > "fubar.tmp" > > "foo.bar" > > "bar.foo" > > and so on. One person I know at UCLA tends to use "blah", hence > > his temps are often called "blah.foo" > > > > What about you?? > > > I use toad stuff XXXX (extended probably) splod Why? I don't know - some hang over from when I tried to teach myself touch-typing. It would be interesting to find out if UK users have a different style of names from the US/Canada counterparts. One thing I do is try to guess a name NOT used in a particular directory ('specially if it's someone else's!)
dac1@ukc.UUCP (D.Caldwell) (05/17/85)
As temporary file names, quite a few people here tend to use "fred" or "bill". I am not sure quite how widespread this is though. Other names such as "temp" or "text" all seem to have the common factor of being very short. - David Caldwell, Canterbury, England. "A winner never quits; A quitter never wins."