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Date:      Sun, 7 May 2000 21:40:07 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX
Message-ID:  <20000507214007.Z79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
References:  <20000507211744.D3267@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200005071924.NAA72800@harmony.village.org> <200005071928.HAA04773@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>

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Dan Langille wrote:

> Two theories: one is Pints and Quarts as in drinking (don't drink too 
> much etc), the other is that p and q are quite similar, so don't mix them 
> up or get them confused.

I'd go with the second...  I heard it was from old printing things when
you had to manually put the different characters in place, people often
got p and q mixed up as they're almost symmetrical.  There are probably
loads of other reasons people have made up. :-)

-- 
Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D


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