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From: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Lethal Command
Message-ID: <2333@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 19:42:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekgvs.2333
Posted: Mon Jun  1 19:42:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jun-87 01:09:17 EDT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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In article <3163@well.UUCP> nortond@well.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton) writes:
>An MS-DOS system can be brought to a grinding
>halt with a single command:
>
>		echo >"="
>
>Yes, that's all that it takes.  The system barely has time to echo back
>the new line sequence before everything is frozen.

The MKS Toolkit "ksh" reports 'cannot create "=" for output' and
returns, as happay as a clam at high tide, ready to keep on working.

keith

THIS LINE INCLUDED TO FOOL THE NEWS POSTER PROGRAM INTO THINKING I
ADDDED MORE STUFF THAN I REALLY DID. IT'S REALLY OBNOXIOUS!!!!!

THIS LINE INCLUDED TO FOOL THE NEWS POSTER PROGRAM INTO THINKING I
ADDDED MORE STUFF THAN I REALLY DID. IT'S REALLY OBNOXIOUS!!!!!

THIS LINE INCLUDED TO FOOL THE NEWS POSTER PROGRAM INTO THINKING I
ADDDED MORE STUFF THAN I REALLY DID. IT'S REALLY OBNOXIOUS!!!!!