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Aazure.509 net.general utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!teklabs!tekmdp!azure!kennethr Wed Feb 10 11:05:54 1982 what's foobar? I see "foo" and "bar" and "foobar" quite a bit in UNIX documentation. Are they totem words of some kind, bringing good luck and error-free execution to any C program that uses them as inputs? Or are they some form of curse, visiting core dumps and generic mayhem on the children of my processes?

Or are they something else entirely?

I'd be really interested to find out.

Ken

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