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Letter: Letters: Last word on GREP

Published 26 October 1991

From MALCOLM SOLOMON

The mail command, BIFF, was not the name of Thompson’s mailman’s dog.
The BIFF command software was written by a postgraduate student at the University
of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1980s and is named after her dog. I
know this is true because I was there.

Malcolm Solomon Palo Alto, California, US

Issue no. 1792 published 26 October 1991

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