Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!ism780c!mikep From: mikep@ism780c.isc.com (Michael A. Petonic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: fun with Unix Message-ID: <13052@ism780c.isc.com> Date: 12 Aug 88 19:45:17 GMT References: <880@taux01.UUCP> <370@hocpa.UUCP> <63797@sun.uucp> <5335@rpp386.UUCP> Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA Lines: 24 In article <5335@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes: >In article <63797@sun.uucp> leons@sun.UUCP (Leon A. Shirman) writes: >>How about "sleep with me"? >these would be funniest if you'd print the behavior you get. all i >get is > >$ sleep with me >usage: sleep time >$ > >which just doesn't seem funny. i'd expected `invalid argument' or >something ... On BSD, it prints out: $ sleep with me bad character A little funnier than System V. -MikeP -- Michael A. Petonic mikep@ism780c.isc.com ``When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby?''