Re: (TFT) this is a test this is only a test...

["Jay Carlisle" <selfinflicted_wounds@boardermail.com>]

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Fuhrman" <fuhrman8or@yahoo.com>
> 
> I just have to reply to one piece of this:
> 

> > From: "ErolB1@aol.com" <ErolB1@aol.com>
> > o The "mnemonics" for Unix commands make perfect sense - if you
> > are fluent in Ugo-R'lyehian. But not for those who are fortunate 
> > enough to know only human languages, and not the weird tongues 
> > spoken by indescribable horrors from beyond space and time.
> 
> 
> When I first started using Unix in the 80s, I had not yet read 
> Heinlein. Upon trying to use the 'cpio' command, I got a strange 
> error, something like: "don't grok device blah blah"... I then 
> tried 'man grok' to no avail.
> 
> Later, when I was eating dinner with my roommate (a huge sci-fi 
> fan), he laughed his head off when I explained what I had done.
> 
> Unix is indeed a strange land...
> 


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