From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Oct 31 18:40:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA24008 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24003 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id SAA13479; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:40:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:40:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811010240.SAA13479@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cy Schubert Subject: Re: misc/8519: New Fortunes -- Murphy's Laws Reply-To: Cy Schubert Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/8519; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Cy Schubert To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/8519: New Fortunes -- Murphy's Laws Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 18:32:19 -0800 The "laws" were extracted from a S/370 Assembler program on a SHARE tape. The comments in the program: *---------------------------------------------------------------------* * 'MURPHY' THE OLE PHILOSOPHER 18 AUGUST 1988 * * * * MURPHY WAS FOUND ON A JES2 TAPE OF ALL PLACES WITH ABOUT * * 500 OR SO SAYINGS. GOT ANOTHER 250 FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE * * AND HAVE ADDED ABOUT 100 OR SO MYSELF. * * * [list of changes omitted] * * * JIM MARSHALL, CAPT, USAF * * (301) 688-6829 * * * *---------------------------------------------------------------------* I will try to contact Capt. Marshall to get some history behind the sayings. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC In message <15014.909865767@critter.freebsd.dk>, Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > > We need to make sure there are no copyright problems with this. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message