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

[Christopher Fuhrman <fuhrman8or@yahoo.com>]

I just have to reply to one piece of this:

----- Original Message ----
> 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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