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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Saturday, September 27, 2003 3:20:37 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Saturday, September 27, 2003 12:22:24 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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-An [Acronym] with two meanings: 
+An [Acronym] with many meanings: 
  
 !!! CarbonCopy 
  
-AddToMe  
+In ElectronicMail addressing a CarbonCopy recipient is sent a copy of the message and all other parties are (potentially) aware of that they have been sent a copy.  
  
 !!! [C] [Compiler] 
  
-In [Unix] tradition, the [C] [Compiler] binary is called __cc__, and among the MakefileVariables, there's one called [CC] which stores the name of the [C] [Compiler] to use. 
+In [Unix] tradition, the [C] [Compiler] binary is called __cc__[1] , and among the MakefileVariables, there's one called [CC] which stores the name of the [C] [Compiler] to use. On a [Linux] system, __cc__ is almost always a link to [GCC].  
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+!!! Credit Card  
+  
+A small piece of plastic that lets you spend money you don't have.  
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+----  
+[1] - although, on some proprietary [UNIX] OperatingSystems (*cough*[Solaris]*cough*), __cc__ is a shell script that prints out something to the effect that you have not paid for the additional software development component of the system