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From: cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris Gordon)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Humor ala Kernighan
Message-ID: <11273@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 21:58:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: watnot.11273
Posted: Thu Jul 11 21:58:38 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:54:01 EDT
References: <714@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <243@ttrdc.UUCP> <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> <894@loral.UUCP>
Reply-To: cagordon@watnot.UUCP (Chris Gordon)
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Summary: 

In article <894@loral.UUCP> simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) writes:
>In article <4573@mit-eddie.UUCP> whizzo@mit-eddie.UUCP (David Hardy) writes:
>>
>>This reminds me of a Fortran compiler I used to use years ago on a 
>>XEROX 560 computer:  If you did the following
>>
>>      ASSIGN xx JAIL
>>      GO TO JAIL
>>
>>In the compiler listing would be the following, right after the statement:
>>      GO DIRECTLY.  DO NOT PASS GO.  DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS.
>>
>>Anyone else know of any hidden program 'features' such as this?
>>-- 
>
>	On the H.P. 2100 computer I once used, entering the command "WHY"
>to the operating system provoked the response:
>
>WHY NOT?
>
>

Reminds me of a computer (DEC) I used a lot at high school:

help  - gives normal help for a legal command

help  - help:help not available for 

help me - help: help not available for YOU

..well I thought it was funny, anyway.



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