fun with Unix

Charles J. Antonelli cja at zippy.eecs.umich.edu
Tue Aug 30 11:04:54 AEST 1988


In article <1988Aug27.163325.532 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> woods at gpu.utcs.Toronto.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>% sleep with me?
>No match.
>
>I think this was the originally intented line.  ...

no no no.  sleep's original diagnostic was simply `bad character':
	% sleep with me
	bad character

>It's not that funny anyway :-(

i totally agree.  here are various, far funnier responses:

	Out of phase--get help
	BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
	Reboot failed...help!
	NFS server bleah not responding still trying
	panic: exit
	/: file system full
	No files saved.

and the perennial favorite

	segmentation violation - core dumped

:-)




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