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- From: rjohnson@shell.com (Roy Johnson)
- Subject: Re: finger
- In-Reply-To: ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu's message of Mon, 2 Nov 1992 00:17:58 GMT
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- Date: 4 Nov 92 15:30:04
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- ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
- when someone is fingering me, i want to find out where that person is
- and who that person is.
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- Make your .plan a named pipe. Start a daemon to write whatever into
- it repeatedly, and each time it finishes, call
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- system("wall 'Who did that?'");
-
- 8^)
- --
- Roy Johnson
- Shell Development Company (but speaking for myself)
- Clinton won - I guess there are still plenty of people who don't
- see the irony in "I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
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