Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watnot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!water!watnot!cagordon 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) Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 41 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. ... from the many keyboards of Chris Gordon In real life: UUCP : {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watnot!cagordon "Any similarity of ideas expressed above to those of persons living, dead or undead is purely coincidental"