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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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Subject: Re: Okay, I give up.  What is the real story?
Message-ID: <18724@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 13 Nov 90 13:58:37 GMT
References: <1990Nov11.040756.27552@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <1990Nov12.193257.24541@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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In article <1990Nov12.193257.24541@odin.corp.sgi.com> nelson@sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes:
>I once worked on a computer system that had been changed to generate
>adventure responses to frequent commands, e.g.

you can do this with AIX v3 - all of the standard error messages are
in message catalogs.  i've considered making a set of "valspeak" or
"jive" catalogs.

	"Like, you know, I'm sending your output to /dev/null!"
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