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- From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
- Newsgroups: alt.sources
- Subject: Re: GENERAL WARNING
- Message-ID: <1548@atlas.tegra.COM>
- Date: 5 Oct 90 15:16:19 GMT
-
- In article <1990Oct1.192920.679@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> ken@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) writes:
-
-
- It only took about 6 weeks for one of us (yes, I confess, it was I) to
- type "xyzzy" to the command interpreter prompt, just to see what would
- happen...
-
- The system halted, and the user who typed it was thrown into the
- diagnostic ROM monitor.
-
- The Customer Service type to whom I reported it couldn't believe what I
- was telling her at first. And she couldn't imagine why anyone would
- type "xyzzy" to a shell prompt in the first place! I guess she hadn't
- hung out with too many software hackers.
-
- Come to think of it, I don't know whether they ever _did_ get around to
- taking that out...
-
- Two years ago when I was working at DG it was still in AOS. Typing
- `xyzzy' at the prompt returned "Nothing happens". I wondered if
- anything ever did happen. Rumor had it that you had to be in a
- certain directory. This made sense but I tried everything I could
- think of, even with all the proveledges on the console. My conclusion
- is that I that was true then the directory necessary was no longer
- used on current releases.
-
- Anybody know the real "Truth" about this?
-
- jv
-
-
- "Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but, this, tends to get overlooked,
- by, our mother fixated overweight sexist media" -- Robin Hitchcock
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