[H-GEN] why tab

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:32:02PM +1000, 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?

table. If you check the contents carefully (and haven't messed up
too much :-), you see that they are actually tables.

A freebie:
    * cmc answers a question nobody asked instead:
    <cmc> 'cap' in printcap and termcap means 'capabilities'

Edwin

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