Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ukma!ufcsv!codas!mtune!lzaz!lznv!fah
From: fah@lznv.ATT.COM (F.A.HICINBOTHEM)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/.!.
Summary: I wrote it! I love it! Don't delete it!
Keywords: 3b1
Message-ID: <1258@lznv.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 88 02:40:35 GMT
References: <368@pcbox.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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.............. AHA, THE MYSTERY OF .!. SURFACES AGAIN! ................


Well .... I wrote it .... and crude hack though it may be, it had
the official sanction of all the AT&T brass (most of whom are no
longer around) and the Convergent folks (most of whom now work
elsewhere and have long since cashed in their stock options).

It is called .!. so that you can simply type !.!. from your user
agent screen.

The list of folks it presents are indeed anyone who had anything to 
do with the original machine (and I mean anyone).  

Those of you with little or no ego may feel free to delete it - I for
one will spend the little extra bit of space in glowing tribute to
those folks who made the box possible.

P.S. - you win the prize if you can figure out how the ORDER of the
names presented was chosen - they are not random, there is an algorithm!

Fred Hicinbothem ......lznv!fah