From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:33:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:32:51 -0500 Received: from moutvdom01.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.200]:13919 "EHLO moutvdom01.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:32:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3A707197.6A80CE78@ngforever.de> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:33:59 -0700 From: Thunder from the hill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD QXW03240 (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jap3003+response@ksu.edu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: make mrproper In-Reply-To: <20010124112738.A28476@ksu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > My guess is that it is a joke. 'Meister Proper' is the German > Mister Clean (the big, bald guy on the same-name cleaning > agent bottle). I'm not sure of the spelling, though. It's been > a while since I've seen the commercials. You've spelled it correct. > I dunno if it's Finnish, though. Never been there. Maybe it was > put in by a German developer. Maybe not. It was there when > I started. Sure it was, since Mr. Proper already existed in the sixties... People who don't know what it means usually use make spotless. I have also already seen Mr. Proper in the US, and some other countries seem to have it, too. Cheers! Thunder - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/