From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 14 20:32:17 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B8B37B405; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 20:32:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g2F4W0t7132296; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:32:00 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020314164056.C79213@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20020314140510.I29705@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020314164056.C79213@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:31:59 -0500 To: obrien@FreeBSD.org, Robert Watson From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps lomac.c lomac.h src/bin/ls lomac.c lomac.h Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 4:40 PM -0800 3/14/02, David O'Brien wrote: >On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 05:17:45PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: >> >> In the US, 'DBA' sometimes stands for 'Doing Business As' -- permits a > >I have never heard this acronym in all my Beltway-Bandit >days. I think maybe it is a NA-specific one? Seems pretty common to me. I've received packages from a number of mail-order companies which were "So and So, Inc, d/b/a Much Fancier-Sounding Business". -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message