Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!woody From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: TECO and 'make love' (was Re: How do you tell a wizard?) Summary: odd ball stuff with TECO Message-ID: <17334@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 20 Nov 89 13:52:03 GMT References: <5206@omepd.UUCP> <7108@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX Lines: 17 In article <7108@hubcap.clemson.edu>, hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (Mike Marshall) writes: > In the same vein as: > > | >% make love > > | >Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. > > An editor I once had to use in some ancient PC environment used to > respond to "et" with "phone home"... > > -Mike hubcap@clemson.edu A Fortran compiler on the old XEROX Sigma-6 computer would look for an equated label of the name "jail" and if it found it , it would stop compling and printout "go directly to jail, do not pass go, donot collect $200." and then keep on merrily humming along. Never did find out where in the compiler that was stored..... Cheers, Woody