Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!axiom!drilex!rclex!cdx39!jc From: jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: Re: Control-charing Ooblick and roaches Message-ID: <315@cdx39.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 16:45:43 EDT Article-I.D.: cdx39.315 Posted: Thu Sep 18 16:45:43 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Sep-86 23:26:11 EDT References: <481@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> Lines: 17 > The NAME/FINGER police haven't caught me yet -- and my favorite code > is ^[c on vt100/vt220 terminals. Try it, if you dare :-)> (smiling > evil wizard) Gee, I tried it and all it did was BEEP at me. Maybe I typed it wrong? What I like to do is insert the following into someone's .login file: set prompt='[7m['`fortune -o`'] \! :[0m ' -- John M Chambers Phone: 617/364-2000x7304 Email: ...{cthulhu,inmet,harvax,mit-eddie,mot[bos],rclex}!cdx39!{jc,news,root,usenet,uucp} Smail: Codex Corporation; Mailstop C1-30; 20 Cabot Blvd; Mansfield MA 02048-1193 Telex: 922-443 CODEX A MNSF !fortune -o