Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!lvc
From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: and another unix joke
Summary: jokes
Message-ID: <1293@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 14:29:01 GMT
References: <26159@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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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!

I used this ksh alias once on someone, took a month for them to
figure out what was going on:

	alias ls='echo "sh: ls:  not found" ; unalias ls'

On a UNIX PDP 11/70 system I mounted a floppy disk on a users home
directory, boy they got very anxious very fast!

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM