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From: ms@ccieng5.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: TECO does not say not war?
Message-ID: <175@ccieng5.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 17:08:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: ccieng5.175
Posted: Thu Oct 13 17:08:04 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Oct-83 21:52:06 EDT
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To correct Mr. Levinson, who said that DEC10 TECO said "Not war?" when
you gave the TOPS-10 monitor command "make love":

It is not TECO that says that, but COMPIL.  MAKE is implemented under
TOPS-10 as a COMPIL class command, so MAKE runs COMPIL, which switches
to TECO, FORTRAN, or whatever it figures you want.  COMPIL detects this
humorous special case, and generates the message itself immediately
before entering TECO.  If you examine the executable code for COMPIL
using a binary editor in ASCII character mode, "Not war?" appears, buried
in the bytes.

			Mark "Once a DEC-10 man, always a DEC-10 man" Stevans
			ritcv!ccieng5!ms