From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 13 5:37: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E031548E for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 05:37:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat41.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.233]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA23413 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:36:52 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA02972 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:30:28 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 15:30:28 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple c i/o question Message-ID: <20000113153028.C2590@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <200001121724.MAA42699@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <200001121724.MAA42699@blackhelicopters.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:24:56PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > >Dumb-ass. :-) > > > > I wear the label proudly! ;-) Along with the rest of us who have been tricked by /bin/test during our larval C programmer stages. > > >Test is either a shell built-in, or a system utility (/bin/test). > > >Either call your program something else or run it as ./test . > > > > > >How long did that one have you going? :-) > > > > Until about 30 seconds ago. That was it! > > > > -=> jm <=- > > Jonathon, > > This is the first step on the path to enlightenment. You may now > consider yourself on the way to becoming a UNIX programmer. The next one is, I'm afraid, more painful... typing "rm -fr ." while in the wrong directory :-/ But every UNIX user has to fall through some classic traps, in his way to elightenment (stay down, yes you, this is not about GNOME). Ciao :-) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message