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From: mac@allegra.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: REALLY STRANGE ERROR MESSAGES
Message-ID: <1929@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Nov-83 10:30:18 EST
Article-I.D.: allegra.1929
Posted: Tue Nov  1 10:30:18 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Nov-83 01:20:22 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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	Back when I was a new UNIX hacker, I worked at a software
	house in NYC that had a VERY non-secure system (almost 
	everyone had the super-user password).  The experienced
	(and semi-experienced) hackers would play "Terminal Wars";
	the idea was to send bogus error messages to someone else's 
	terminal to confuse them.  The best messages were
	reasonable sounding, but impossible to find in the manuals...

	Some of the popular ones:

		Core Error - Bus Dumped

		Illegal Arbitrator - Line 23

		Rule 5 Violation


	Jim McParland
	allegra!mac