Creating :->file

David Messer dave at circadia.UUCP
Mon Apr 29 16:10:06 AEST 1985


> > Come on, the only real way to do it is:
> > :-> file
> 
> No sooner said than done!  This struck me as a real good idea,
> so I quit from readnews and typed:
> 
>   cat >:-.c
>   main(){return 0;}
>   ^D
>   cc -o :- :-.c
> 
> 			John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena]

I like the fact that you wrote this in C for efficiency, but
shouldn't you have used the '-O' option?

:-)
-- 

Dave Messer   ...ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!circadia!dave



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