From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: foo
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:50:05 -0500
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Michael Zanyat wrote:
> 
> I am new to DJGPP (and even to C) and in some documentations I read foo.
> 
> What the hell is foo. I find it in ASM docs as well as in a message
> about the
> copyright for comercial use...
> Maybe foo is just a 'place keeper' in english...?

Exactly correct.  "Foo," along with "bar" and sometimes "baz," is a
placeholder used in examples.  When I say, "type 'gcc -o foo.exe
foo.c'," I mean that you should substitute "foo" in the example with
whatever your real-world program is named.

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