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From: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX PC wierd programs?!
Message-ID: <289@kosman.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 22:37:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: kosman.289
Posted: Thu Sep 24 22:37:22 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 06:47:52 EDT
References: <53@quincy.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman)
Organization: K.O.'s Manor - Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
Lines: 32
Keywords: programs, hidden, convergent

In article <53@quincy.UUCP> lenny@quincy.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>Recently there has been some discussion on "pcal" (CALENDAR 3.0) that 
>was hidden in /etc/fixes directory.  Well I found I even more mysterious
>oddity!
>
>/usr/bin/.!.   <-- note this is any executable.  Run it you will get a
>laugh?  Now explain why it is here?  Why the list of people
>/usr/installed/.list yet again another hidden file.  See what a:
>
>	$ find / -name .* -print
>
>Will do!!  

Well, .!. (besides its graphic symbology) shows a list of the original Safari 4
team members.  It was hacked in late in the original development cycle, and
somehow got past the AT&T censors (if there are any, I don't know anything
about AT&T Quality Control).  It's been just quietly sitting there since at
least release 2.0.  

.list is data for .!.

It's kind of an in joke.  I only know about it because one of my very best
friends is on the list.

I generally change .list because of another in-joke, but you can safely just
delete both files.  BTW you'll see what a crude hack .!. is from the state
it leaves your console in.


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Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman ) Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA  93035