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Re: basic question: going back to dired
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Juanma Barranquero |
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Re: basic question: going back to dired |
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Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:57:41 +0200 |
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 22:38, Juanma <juanma_bellon@yahoo.es> wrote:
> For all I know, it comes from "0 Knock-outs" (from USA civil war times,
> IIRC), i.e., all went really well.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay#Etymology
"0 knock-outs" is among the "Improbable or refuted etymologies".
Juanma