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From: paulh@tektronix.UUCP (Paul Hoefling)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: more strange error messages
Message-ID: <1492@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 31-Oct-83 22:18:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: tektroni.1492
Posted: Mon Oct 31 22:18:38 1983
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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>   I was once looking through the source of a version of MH (the Rand
>   mail handler), and found what appeared to be an error printf that
>   displayed "scan:  matzoh balls"...  (No, I didn't bother trying to
>   figure out how to generate that message.)

There are several such messages in MH.  One of my favorites is
	"pepperoni pizza: never get here"

Continuing on the subject of unusual messages, at one place I worked, there
were several different printer types each requiring its own flavor of carriage
control.  In particular, the oldest type of printer, when presented with the
carriage control characters for a different printer, had the delightful habit
of never producing a line feed; as a result, your entire listing came out on
a single line.  One day when I came in to use the machine that had the old
printer on it, the person before me had obviously been using the wrong driver.
They had, however, issued manual spacing commands and managed to get a single
intelligible line out.  It read:

	TERROR IN THE OUTPUT FILE  A  A

(The 'A's were a result of the wrong carriage control)


Happy computing...

Paul Hoefling
(...!teklabs!tektronix!paulh - usenet)
(paulh at tektronix - csnet)
(AB00PLH on Cyber)

Happy computing...

Paul Hoefling
(...!teklabs!tektronix!paulh - usenet)
(paulh at tektronix - csnet)
(AB00PLH on Cyber)