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- From: lydick@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Speaker-to-Minerals)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Re: I/O, I/O, it's off to pun we go (was Re: Dan'l hits Australia)
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:44:12 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1993Jan16.221511.18903@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <0aaJXB9w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>,<brumby.727390031@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- In article <brumby.727390031@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au>, brumby@nella07.cc.monash.edu.au (Stephen McNamara) writes:
- = Those who aren't well versed in Unix might want to skip this stuff.
- =
- =kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
- =>mwasson@nyx.cs.du.edu (mike wasson) writes:
- =>> Gecko-boy jerks awake with a start. "Sorry, Brumby, I was kind of tuning
- =>> in and out there ... "
- =
- =>When we want to go in and out, we use uugetty. (Unix joke, sorry.)
- =
- = "That's a bit obscure init? Likely to respawn all those computer puns."
-
- StM calls in Carl to deal with this. Quoth Carl:
- "I take exception to that. While is may have seemed a routine pun to
- *YOU*, I'd definitely have to categorize it as sub-routine. Of course,
- that may be a function of our respective backgrounds, and the processes
- by which we've arrived at our current states in life. With that, I
- return the discussion to its normal environment, and all the variables
- pertaining thereto, having made my main() point."
-