From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 16 20:06:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA10043 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:06:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA10015 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:06:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA03859; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:58:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608170258.TAA03859@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: File System on a tape To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:58:48 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, dgy@rtd.com, batie@agora.rdrop.com, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608170115.VAA26317@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Aug 16, 96 09:15:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > How about other absurd computer folk tales? (I'm > looking for things like convincing a user that /dev/null has just > jumped the spindle, not whales exploding or mouse ball documents.) I convinced a user that in order to print a file, you have to type lpr filename -J when he asked me one too many questions that were in his class handout sitting on the desk next to him. I also told another user who was trying to share assignment code with a friend that his home directory was named "~/". ls ~/ See? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.