Fun_People Archive
1 Dec
Christmas among the Unix

Date: Wed,  1 Dec 93 15:47:01 PST
To: Fun_People
Subject: Christmas among the Unix

 From: <dante@microsoft.com>

Normally I hate all this xmas crap but I do like geek humor.
And I'm not clear on how lpr == "I'm telling you", unless
printing==telling. Anybody want to enlighten me?

 From: Stacy Waters  <netmail!stacy@ms.washington.edu>

better !pout !cry
better watchout
lpr why
santa claus < north pole > town

cat /etc/passwd >list
ncheck list
ncheck list
cat list | grep naughty >nogiftlist
cat list | grep nice >giftlist
santa claus <north pole > town

who | grep sleeping
who | grep awake
who | egrep 'bad|good'
for (goodness sake) {
        be good
}

[Good point about "lpr why".  Without a DecTalk/Votrax, I'd go for "cat why"
 or "more why" but not "you = seek(fd, why, 0)" -- that's WAY too obscure...
 -psl]

© 1993 Peter Langston