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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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