From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 21 16:17: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D232D1558C for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@nojunk.com) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp59-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.251]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA31296; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 01:15:17 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 00:17:06 GMT Message-ID: <20000122.170600@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: metaports ... To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: X-Mailer: Supercalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/21/00, 3:58:17 PM, Jonathon McKitrick wrote regarding metaports: > I see them all over, and i searched the archives, but where is a > definition? > -=3D> jm <=3D- Dear Jonathon, meta-ports means roughly "beyond" ports. From "meta" (from ancient Greek, "proper" preposition constructed with gen. dat. & acc.) meaning various things, e.g. with; across; near (in); towards; after, beyond. "proper" is in relation to Greek verbs (that is, proper prepositions=20 can be used as preverbs, or prefixes in compound verbs) This "combining form" (in English) is productive enough ... N.B. my_fake_antispam_domain =3D=3D=3D> neomedia.it to e-mail to me. Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message