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From: Kelsey Hudson <khudson@compendium.us>
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> 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.

mrproper is really a joke. Here in the US, we have Mr. Clean; in German, 
at least, Mr. Proper is the literal translation. I'm not sure who added 
it, but the thought of an old bald guy scrubbing down the source code with 
a sponge is kinda funny. :D

 Kelsey Hudson                                       khudson@compendium.us
 Software Engineer/UNIX Systems Administrator
 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               (619) 725-0771
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