From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 07:40:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA07528 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 07:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [139.23.36.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA07480 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 07:39:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA19837 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:34:26 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (1@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id QAA04034 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:39:11 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA17550 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:39:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199704011539.RAA22531@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Subject: Re: 'GET A LIFE' doesn't work In-Reply-To: <199704011501.JAA11355@tick.ssec.wisc.edu> from Dave Glowacki at "Apr 1, 97 09:01:22 am" To: dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU (Dave Glowacki) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 17:39:01 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, sameer wrote: > > > > > Why doesn't: > > > > > > echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|d > c > > > > > > work as expected on freebsd? > > > > What is it supposed to do? > > Looks like it's supposed to echo "GET A LIFE!", but out of HP-UX 10.10, > Solaris 2.5, IRIX 6.2, AIX 3.2 and AIX 4.1.4, only the AIX 3.2 system did > that. The rest of 'em returned without echoing anything. IRIX 5.3, HP-UX 9.05, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and even some Linux system :-) also do this properly. -Andre