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From: steve@drivax.UUCP (Steve Williams)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: YASSC (yet another silly shell command) (from net.jokes)
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 15:35:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 15:35:43 1985
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> I just posted the following in net.jokes and just realized that someone
> reading net.text would have the answer.  Any answers anyone??????

>TECO (the archaic yet nice editor) written by DEC had an operating system
>(shell) command that was called MAKE.  If one typed "MAKE XXX" to the
>operating system, the system would enter the editor and create the file named
>XXX. In addition the bug/feature that the system included said in response to
>"MAKE LOVE", "Not War?".   Is this a bug/feature?, I don't know. 

A feature.  There were many versions of TECO out there. Some of them had the
reverse "MAKE WAR" / "Not Love?" witticism.  During the PDP-11 heyday, this
was a "mandatory" quirk of the "MAKE" command for new TECO implementations. 

							-Steve