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  1. From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
  2. Newsgroups: alt.sources
  3. Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
  4. Message-ID: <4395@husc6.harvard.edu>
  5. Date: 11 Oct 90 01:49:00 GMT
  6.  
  7. In article <1990Oct1.192920.679@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu>, ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) writes:
  8. | It only took about 6 weeks for one of us (yes, I confess, it was I) to
  9. | type "xyzzy" to the command interpreter prompt, just to see what would
  10. | happen... 
  11.  
  12.     Interesting, some versions of MS-DOS also had an xyzzy command.
  13. It appeared to enable exit-status reporting from the shell..
  14.  
  15.                 Dan Lanciani
  16.                 ddl@harvard.*
  17.