Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!ccncsu!debussy.cs.colostate.edu!haines From: haines@debussy.cs.colostate.edu (Matt Haines) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Wanted: easter eggs Message-ID: <7915@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 13 Jul 90 19:35:39 GMT References: <53575@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <7776@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <313@taumet.com> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Organization: Colorado State Computer Science Department Lines: 68 In article <313@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes: | This may not be exactly an Easter Egg, since it is not designed in, but | falls out: On a Unix system, get someone to type in: | got a light? | The most usual response is | No match. Here is a list of some more Unix shell responses. I don't remember where I originally got it, so I can't give the proper credit. Note that the '%' prompt indicates the C shell, while the '$' prompt indicates the Bourne shell. Go ahead and try some ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ % rm meese-ethics rm: meese-ethics nonexistent % ar m God ar: God does not exist % "How would you rate Quayle's incompetence? Unmatched ". % ^How did the sex change^ operation go? Modifier failed. % If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have? Too many ('s. % make love Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop. % sleep with me bad character % got a light? No match. % man: why did you get a divorce? man:: Too many arguments. % ^What is saccharine? Bad substitute. % %blow %blow: No such job. % \(- (-: Command not found. $ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense no sense in pretending! $ drink matter matter: cannot create ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- Matt Haines | "Don't take life too seriously ... Colorado State University, CS Dept. | nobody gets out of here alive!" 503 University Services Center | - Jim Morrison Ft. Collins, CO 80523 | (303) 491-1943 |