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From: woolsey@umn-cs.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <888@umn-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Feb-86 00:28:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 19 00:28:48 1986
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Reply-To: woolsey@umn-cs.UUCP (Jeff Woolsey)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., U of Minn, Mpls, MN
Lines: 23
Keywords: line printers
Summary: 

Reminds me of a program I wrote years ago to have the opposite effect.
I called it "SLOW".  It turned each line of a file
 FROM THIS
+T
+ O
+   
+   T
+    H
+     I
+      S

It made our 1200 LPM printers run at about 60 cps.

I also remember sending a print file that contained about 1000 logical
end-of-records (and nothing else) to a remote line printer.  It took about 5 
minutes for it to transmit and print nothing.
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Honk honk!  Why, it's Wobbles, the goose!

				Jeff Woolsey
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