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From: mlewis@unocss.unomaha.edu (mlewis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs
Message-ID: <3021@unocss.unomaha.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 90 02:10:48 GMT
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From article <31567@cup.portal.com>, by dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell):


> remember what, when I spotted the string "XYZZY". That looks
> familiar, I mumbled; what if I tried it as a command? Sure enough,
> instead of the expected "Syntax Error", it responded "I see no caves here."


Data General's AOS and AOS/VS CLI (Command Line Interpreter) responds to
XYZZY with a simple 'nothing happens'

This might get better responses in alt.folklore.computers, since it was 
discussed about 6 months ago.

Marc

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