Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!husc6!purdue!haven!adm!news From: mailer-daemon%cernvax.cern.ch@pucc.princeton.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Undeliverable mail to VMS host Message-ID: <25284@adm.brl.mil> Date: 17 Dec 90 16:20:46 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 118 Your message to <@DxMINT.cern.ch:OLAVI%13411.decnet.CERN@CERNVAX.BITNET> could not be delivered. The error message was: Deferred: %MAIL-E-OPENOUT, error openning as output This message is equivalent to the DECnet-VAX error message: -SYSTEM-F-EXDISKQUOTA, disk quota exceeded The reason why your message could not be delivered is caused by the fact that your correspondants account has ran out of diskquota. Please contact your correspondant (by phone or otherwise) and tell him about this problem. ====== The start of Your original message ====== UNIX-WIZARDS Digest Tue, 11 Dec 1990 V11#058 Today's Topics: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 1 of 6 Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6 Re: recently created newsgroups Re: non-superuser chown(2)s considered harmful Re: Serial I/O captoinfo(1M) and infocmp(1M) sources wanted. I have ftp. Process history under C-shell and Bourne shell flaky DEUNA board on VAX 11/750 Re: Problems with the crontab Re: gets() during signal The performance implications of the ISa bus Re: Ok... can we switch it back now? IO buses, memory waste Re: How do you find the symbolic links to files. Unix files should have both real and effective ids for files too Re: Now that resolver is used, mail ignores 'mailhost' in /etc/hosts Re: Preventing date rollback Include a postscript source file into Troff ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jan Mattson Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 1 of 6 Date: 10 Dec 90 11:22:32 GMT Sender: news@kuling.uucp Organisation: CS Dept, Uppsala University, Sweden To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil In <207@frcs.UUCP> paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash) writes: >Thus spake eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond): >> BUG [from telephone terminology, ``bugs in a telephone cable'', blamed >> for noisy lines] n. An unwanted and unintended property of a >> program, esp. one which causes it to malfunction. See FEATURE. >I have heard this attributed to Rear Admiral (retd) Grace Hopper, who >had a malfunctioning program. The cause was traced to a fried moth in >the back of the computer. The use of the word "bug" to describe "unwanted and unintended" behavior is much older than computers. Edison used it, and perhaps it's even older than that. -- Jan Mattsson Computer Science student, Uppsala University, Sweden Email: D88.Jan-Mattsson@carmen.docs.uu.se or janm@zorn.csd.uu.se ----------------------------- From: "Darragh J. Delany" Subject: Re: Jargon file v2.1.5 28 NOV 1990 -- part 5 of 6 Date: 10 Dec 90 17:35:46 GMT To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil In article pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: }On 30 Nov 90 17:25:12 GMT, smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) said: }smith> A Unix hacker can't sneer at Multics. It's like sneering at your }smith> grandad. Sure he's a doddering wreck, but he created some pretty }smith> fine stuff that we can still be proud of. You, for example. }If only! A very good argument can be made that Multics is a descendant }of Unix! You can consider Multics the grandchild of Unix. If I remember rightly the very name Unix was a pun on Multics which was the epitomy of what an efficient operating system should not have been. Darragh. ----------------------------- From: "Laird J. Heal" Subject: Re: recently created newsgroups Date: 10 Dec 90 12:55:58 GMT To: unix-wizards@sem.brl.mil In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: > >The following newsgroups were created based on the guidelines in the >last two weeks: > > Dec 3 soc.culture.lebanon > Dec 3 rec.arts.fine > Dec 3 comp.sys.acorn > Nov 25 comp.sys.novell > Nov 25 comp.research.japan > Nov 25 sci.engr.chem > Nov 25 rec.games.pinball > Nov 25 rec.audio.car I have been sending the mass acknowledgement and results to news.announce.newgroups, as the guidelines suggest. However, they have not been posted, while I never had any problems before and they have not been