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From: wfmans@ihuxb.UUCP (w. mansfield)
Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.unix
Subject: Re: nonsense words for files
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 15:31:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 15:31:21 1985
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> ...
> When I first got my home computer, I made the mistake of naming a
> temporary file "test" while logged in as root, and then discovered I
> couldn't shut down the machine until I removed it.  Seems that part of
> the shutdown procedure is writing a file named "test," and if there's already
> one of that name, it just logs you in again.
> 
> --Lee Gold

This reminds me of my usual mistake -- under UNIX, create a program
test.c, compile it using make into test, and try to execute it.
You get no output very quickly, since test is part of the shell.
Hard to debug, too, since you can't find another executable file
in your PATH.
I added net.unix to the list.  Seems a far better place for these
digressions.
-- 

	Bill Mansfield
	AT&T Information Systems, Naperville, IL
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