Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!bbn!bbn.com!mesard From: mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: NOT another unix joke! Message-ID: <30097@bbn.COM> Date: 26 Sep 88 18:21:52 GMT References: <864@vsi.UUCP> Sender: news@bbn.COM Lines: 31 Follow-up-To: comp.misc Can we PLEASE get the latest round of UNIX jokes into a more appropriate group! (Note follow-up line.) I'm having a lot of trouble wading through these to find messages asking about non-blocking read's:-) And now--> The pot calling the kettle black: From article <864@vsi.UUCP>, by friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl): > Instead of the normal message: > > Memory fault - core dumped > > we patched the shell to say > > Rogers fault - core dumped > Those who were on the CMU campus in the summer (?) of '87 might remember when a certain system developer accidently released a version of the C-shell to the entire campus in which the message Segmentation fault (core dumped) was changed to Excreting an apple (core dumped) -- unsigned *Wayne_Mesard(); "I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny MESARD@BBN.COM of the human race, in its gradual improvement, BBN, Cambridge, MA to leave off eating animals." -Thoreau