FUBAR Etymology [nac]

[Dave Eaton]

i'd assumed that it was a more polite form of fubar.  maybe not....

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q

-----Original Message-----
From:	Jörgen Karlsson [mailto:jorgen.m.karlsson at home.se]
Sent:	Monday, 3 December 2001 12:15 p.m.
To:	Dave.Eaton at clear.net.nz; quattro at audifans.com
Cc:	critchie1 at hotmail.com
Subject:	RE: FUBAR Etymology [nac]

> also seen in the manuals of the digital tops-10 operating system by moi in
> the early 80's - used as a default directory name etc.  took me quite a
> while to figure out what it meant....

I guess that it is FOOBAR you are thinking of.

I can't remember if it was [], {} or both that was called FOOBAR in
programming circles. When p2p audio transmission of code (phone call) was
done it could sound like this: -void main void FOO puts Quattro rules! BAR
When typed in it looks like this:

void main(void)
{
puts("Quattro list rules!");
}


Jörgen Karlsson
Gothenburg, Sweden.