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- From: larsa@colargol (larsa)
- Subject: C-Shell error messages :)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.004318.23135@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: Colargol, Trondheim College of Engineering
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 00:43:18 GMT
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- OK, I found this file somewhere, and wonder if you guys and girls out there
- know of any other funny respondings from c-shell...
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- I personally like the humour provided by the csh shell.
- The following came my way several months ago. Unfortunately,
- I cannot take credit for any of these.
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- Paul Barth writes:
- Since we are all now great Unix wizards, the follow might be humorous. It
- came to me from Umass.
-
- Note that the '%' prompt indicates that the command should be issued from
- the C shell, and the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne shell.
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- % rm meese-ethics
- rm: meese-ethics nonexistent
-
- % ar m God
- ar: God does not exist
-
- % "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence?
- Unmatched ".
-
- % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
- Missing ].
-
- % ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
- Modifier failed.
-
- % If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
- Too many ('s.
-
- % make love
- Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
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- % sleep with me
- bad character
-
- % got a light?
- No match.
-
- % man: why did you get a divorce?
- man:: Too many arguments.
-
- % ^What is saccharine?
- Bad substitute.
-
- % %blow
- %blow: No such job.
-
- % \(-
- (-: Command not found.
-
- % sh
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- $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
- no sense in pretending!
-
- $ drink <bottle; opener
- bottle: cannot open
- opener: not found
-
- $ mkdir matter; cat >matter
- matter: cannot create
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- | Lars Joergen Aas | The best way to avoid being raped: Say yes! |
- | larsa@edb.tih.no | Look: a ".signature" with only four lines... |
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