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From: fhl@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: TECO/MAKE (try it)
Message-ID: <1879@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 12:27:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.1879
Posted: Tue Oct 11 12:27:08 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 01:59:10 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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	All this discussion of unique error messages
in programs reminded me of a little check that the 
TECO text editor (DEC mainframes and micros both I 
think) makes when it comes up.  By way of history I 
should say it was a product of the late 60's and 
early 70's. The way to create and begin editing a file
in TECO is:

make filename 		; to which it replys
*

make love		; however is flagged to give
not war?
*

	The last time that I saw this work was in 1973. 
Upon a recent visit to WECo ERC in princeton, nj I saw that
the friend I was visiting was using teco on his fortran prog, 
and I asked him to try it again ... sure enough it is still 
in the present day codes!

Frank Levinson	BTL-CSO   MH  allegra!fhl