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From: pdc@otter.hple.hp.com (Damian Cugley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: more unix jokes - /dev/null
Message-ID: <1170008@otter.hple.hp.com>
Date: 22 Sep 88 09:26:30 GMT
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/ otter:comp.unix.questions / dean@usceast.UUCP (Dean Karres) /  7:25 pm  Sep 21, 1988 /

> Ok, this isn't really a "Unix joke" but I am curious... Under Data
> General's AOS and AOS/VS operating systems (pre rev 7, my DG knowledge
> stops before then) a user could type `xyzzy' and get the response
> `Nothing happens'.

> Now for my question, does this happen under the Unix environment(s)?

Well, occasionally I have it set up to `cd project-directory' for me
(but often since I started using window systems).

pdc