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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 16:13:51 +0000
From: Patrice BLEUZE <fritz!pbl@dorotech.fr>
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To: Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU>
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Subject: Re: 'GET A LIFE' doesn't work 
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Dave Glowacki wrote:
> 
> > 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.

It works on SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 5.4, Solaris 5.5, Solaris 5.5.1,
HP-UX 9.01, HP-UX 10.01, AIX 3.2.5, AIX 4.1.5, Unisys SVR4 1.3

My FreeBSD 2.1.5 box doesn't display "GET A LIFE!" but rather
something like :

71100011000000001010000000691 ..............


pbl