Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 19:58:48 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Cc: terry@lambert.org, dgy@rtd.com, batie@agora.rdrop.com, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199608170258.TAA03859@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199608170115.VAA26317@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Aug 16, 96 09:15:27 pm
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> 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 <control>-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.
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