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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Modem Users Beware: BELL 23573$ - (nf)
Message-ID: <2507@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 09:56:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 09:56:29 1983
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Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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The processing of news headers by the shell along the way has been
converting the string "BELL $$$" into a number (the current shell's
PID) followed by that last '$'. This makes the reading rather
amusing at times. For one person, the modem will cost Bell $23,573
(written in the European format 23573$), and for another [presumably
his system hasn't been up that long] only $1,388. Great fun.
:-)

Dave Sherman
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