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Subject: Re: Why 'mrproper'?
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From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
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commence  Bill Davidsen quotation:

> Having started out on the four floppy MCC "distribution" of Linux,
> building kernels clean with 'make distclean,' can someone provide a
> quick historical note as to what mrproper buys? A quick look at the
> tree after each didn't tell me much.

Apparently, the Finnish name for "Mr. Clean" cleaning solution
translates more directly back to English as "Mr. Proper".  Or so I
read somewhere.

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