[can.general] what is "/etc/canada"?

jim@mnetor.UUCP (Jim Stewart) (02/23/89)

I have been asked to find out information about an
organization called "/etc/canada".  The person making
the request thinks it is a vendors' organization.
This person also tells me he doesn't mean "/usr/grp/...".

Can someone help me out?

tnx
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Jim Stewart, VE3SRJ
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jim@mnetor.UUCP (Jim Stewart) (02/23/89)

In article <4914@mnetor.UUCP> I wrote:

>organization called "/etc/canada".  The person making
       ^
>the request thinks it is a vendors' organization.
					   ^
Ooooooh!  My early morning spelling, or maybe my fingers!
Please excuse my poor spelling, I noticed it after I posted
the article and it was scrolling off the screen.
-- 
Jim Stewart, VE3SRJ
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tbray@watsol.waterloo.edu (Tim Bray) (02/24/89)

In article <4915@mnetor.UUCP> jim@mnetor.UUCP (Jim Stewart) writes:
@In article <4914@mnetor.UUCP> I wrote:
@>organization called "/etc/canada".  The person making
@       ^
@>the request thinks it is a vendors' organization.
@					   ^
@Ooooooh!  My early morning spelling, or maybe my fingers!
Uh, in the 50 million words or so of the Oxford English Dictionary text,
there are 2,051 occurrences of `organization', and 466 of
`organisation.'  So you don't have to hang yourself this time.
Tim Bray, New OED Project, U of Waterloo