pubic directory

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

pubic directory
 /pyoob'ik [email protected]'[email protected]/, n.

   [NYU] (also pube directory /pyoob' [email protected]'[email protected]/) The pub (public)
   directory on a machine that allows FTP access. So called because it is
   the default location for {SEX} (sense 1). "I'll have the source in the
   pube directory by Friday."

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

pubic directory

   [NYU] (also "pube directory" /pyoob' d*-rek't*-ree/) The "pub"
   (public) directory on a machine that allows {FTP} access.  So
   called because it is the default location for {SEX} (software
   exchange).

   [{Jargon File}]

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