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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: rsh, rcp and the message "Where are you?"
Message-ID: <1648@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 12:08:50 EST
Article-I.D.: epimass.1648
Posted: Thu Nov 12 12:08:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 18:21:28 EST
References: <173@tarski.quintus.UUCP> <9312@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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Keywords: SUN OS

In article <9312@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>This (message from biff), by the way, points up the fact that
>every program that prints error messages should also print its
>own name.  If Gregg had seen
>
>	% rcp otherhost:file here
>	biff: Where are you
>	%
>
>he might at least have had *one* clue as to where to look.

I remember grepping through the entire source once to find out
where that message was coming from, and being thoroughly annoyed.
And that was when I was at a site that had a source license!
Turns out a user put "biff y" in his .cshrc, same as here.

My present company only has binary, and buggy binary at that.
Suppose I could have done "strings" on everything.


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