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From: jrh@hou5e.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: UNIX Trivia Question
Message-ID: <879@hou5e.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Dec-83 13:39:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  9 13:39:12 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Dec-83 06:08:13 EST
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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A trivia question from way back, for you UNIX historians (I don't
know the answer, but will summerise responses to the net later). I
seem to recall in UNIX version 5 (or maybe 6), the rmdir command
was written in assembler (yes, Virginia, UNIX used to have some things
not written in C). If you (foolishly) issued the command
		rmdir . 
it replied with, I think, "Unexpected values of b will give rise to dom".

Can anyone out there confirm (or deny) this? If true, can anyone
explain it?

			Thanks in advance,

			John Hutchinson
			{houx? | ariel}!hou5e!jrh
			AT&T-ISL, Holmdel.