Reply to post: Re: This one's unintentional

An early crack at network management with an unfortunate logfile

Mast1

Re: This one's unintentional

Met regularly with in 8.3 file-naming conventions.

Back in the mists, I programmed a (VERY) rudimentary "statistics analysis" package in Fortran on a VAX 11/750.

So to be concise and succinct I shortened both words to four letters each, and then concatenated to the required 8 letters, and, like OP, with no intention of crudity.... until I handed it over to a human tester to find the bugs. He just lengthened the pronunciation of the first /a/ of the second word and raised an eyebrow.

Filename changed pretty quickly.

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