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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: and another unix joke
Summary: core dumps
Message-ID: <864@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 05:21:53 GMT
References: <26159@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1293@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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In article <1293@cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
> One joke that got a lot of laughs here was to change a users PS1
> prompt while they were logged in by adb'ing their shell process.
> This is a good way to learn about the UNIX(tm) operating system!

Related indirectly: one of my customers has a couple of programmers
working on various systems, and one individual cannot seem to test
his programs very well -- the whole DP staff knows what a core dump
means.  Instead of the normal message:

	Memory fault - core dumped

we patched the shell to say

	Rogers fault - core dumped

     Steve

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