Helen Borrie wrote:

> At 11:04 PM 28/04/2004 -0400, Claudio wrote:
>> Geoff Worboys wrote:
>>>> DFW and metadata operations
>>>
>>> OK, I give up. Can someone tell me what DFW means?
>>
>> Deferred Work Handler, located in dfw.epp.
>
> DFW ? De Ferred Work [handler]? From the same acro-forge that gave us
> "dudley" and "burp"?

The explanation at the top says Deferred Work handler, so you may be happy
with
De Ferred Work
and forget the "handle" part. Think that it might have been "ferret".
:-)

C.