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Re: Dumb Finder scripting question
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Re: Dumb Finder scripting question


  • Subject: Re: Dumb Finder scripting question
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:06:18 -0800

On 2007-12-18, at 09:38:39, Christopher Nebel wrote:

On Dec 14, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

Sorry, I don't know what Akua Sweets is.  To munge is to mess with.
Originally specifically to mess *up*, I believe.

See <http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/munge.html>, also <http:// www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/mung.html>; it's unclear which came first, though it seems likely that they are related. Mark was probably using "munge", sense 3:

"3. To modify data in some way the speaker doesn't need to go into right now or cannot describe succinctly (compare mumble)."

I always wondered how Munger() got it's name. Been in the Toolbox since 64K ROM.



Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@



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