Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!brianm
From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: COmputer follies
Keywords: cat /etc/termcap > /dev/hd00
Message-ID: <856@viscous>
Date: 11 Sep 88 18:45:53 GMT
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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Friend of mine talked to a man once who had done the following
command on a Xenix machine:

# cat /etc/wtmp > /dev/hd00

followed by several syncs and a reboot.  He wondered why
his computer wouldn't boot after that.  I told my friend that
the man should take his hard disk and hit it with a sledge hammer
to finish the job with hardware that he started with software. :-)

brian
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