[H-GEN] why tab

[David de Groot]

On 28/03/2004, at 2:32 PM, Robert Stanford wrote:

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> crontab
> fstab
> mtab
> inittab
> raidtab
>
> So what does tab mean, and who and where did it come from?
>

It's short for table.  As in, cron trable, fs (file system) table, 
etc...

Dave