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- From: rittle@supra.comm.mot.com (Loren James Rittle)
- Subject: Re: GNU Hello (was Re: What is what in the GNUniverse?)
- Organization: Systems Technology Research, LMPS, Motorola
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:12:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.221259.26382@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- References: <HANCHE.92Dec16172632@ptolemy.ams.sunysb.edu> <CKD.92Dec16191415@loiosh.eff.org>
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- In article <CKD.92Dec16191415@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- >HH> == Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@ams.sunysb.edu>
- >
- > HH> hello (hello!? did someone write "Hello world" in 105591 bytes
- > HH> (compressed)? I hope not!)
- >
- >Yes, they did. From tar -tvf:
-
- [tar output removed]
-
- >They were apparently REAL bored that weekend :)
-
- Maybe, but I suspect that in addition to being a grand joke (it
- was modified by 'The King' Elvis :-), GNU Hello is the smallest
- acceptable GNU program in terms of what should be included in a
- release.
-
- I, for one, am very happy to see this.
-
- Regards,
- Loren
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