From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 10:19:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA17902 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:19:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from blacklodge.c2.net (blacklodge.c2.net [208.139.36.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA17887 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gabber.c2.net (gabber.c2.net [208.139.36.80]) by blacklodge.c2.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00835; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:20:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sameer@localhost) by gabber.c2.net (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA12125; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:18:53 -0800 (PST) From: sameer Message-Id: <199704011818.KAA12125@gabber.c2.net> Subject: Re: 'GET A LIFE' doesn't work To: leec@adonai.net (Lee Crites) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 10:18:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU, jadeite@light.pomona.edu, sameer@c2.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970401161717.0068189c@adonai.net> from Lee Crites at "Apr 1, 97 10:17:17 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (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 Yes, yes, yes. But no one seems to have even gotten close to answering my question. Does anyone know *why* it doesn't work on FreeBSD? Do FreeBSD folks have lives, so it doesn't show up? Do freebsd people *not* have lives? Inquiring minds want to know. > >> > echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|d > >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. > > Reminds me of that old 12-days-of-Christmas c program which was so > obfuscated that 99.9998% of the people could never figure out what it was > supposed to do, until they ran it, that is, and even then, most people > couldn't understand how it did it... > > (now was that a runon sentence, or what?) > > Lee > -- Sameer Parekh Voice: 510-986-8770 President FAX: 510-986-8777 C2Net http://www.c2.net/ sameer@c2.net