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--></style></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Before I got hooked on UNIX in 1977, I used a Univac Exec8 system.<div>You “cataloged” (created) a file with the @CAT command.</div><div>Other, file operations were done by the File Utility Routine/Program Utility Routine: FURPUR</div><div>(sort of like pip on steroids). </div><div><br /></div><div>I decided that if I ever got a CAT, it would be named FURPUR. That happened when I was working for Rutgers. Not having any UNIVACs around, the name escaped notice until the EE department hired a guy from the University of Maryland who says “You have a cat named FURPUR?”</div><div><br /></div></body></html>