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From: arensb@cvl.umd.edu (Andrew Arensburger)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
Subject: Re:  More Stupid Programs
Keywords: orginal, computer, smirk
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Date: 4 Mar 90 11:30:07 GMT
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	A while ago, somebody posted a list of stupid programs, mostly
spoofs of other ones. Here's all the followup I could muster.


Hacketris:
	Run around a dungeon, kill monsters, and catch falling shapes.
[Distributed by UseNyet]

HeX:
	Typesetter; AuToMaTiCaLlY cApItAlIzEs EvErY oThEr LeTtEr.
Requires 7Gb of disk space; more if you want a second font. Must be
pronounced "hechhh" (to rhyme with "blechhh"), or else the author will
make you read _The_HeXbook_.
	Also available: MetalFONT, for designing baroque logos for
heavy-metal bands.[Written by Donald Newt]

Feather:
	Compresses tape archives. Thus, files can be tarred and feathered.
[Standard UnixTM utility]

nsh:
	NutSHell, the smallest UnixTM shell yet. Version 1.0 (the only
one released so far) includes only 'cd' and 'echo <string constant>'.
GNU-nsh, to be released later this year, is expected to be much more
powerful, with built-in Bourne, Korn and C shell emulators. The executable
is expected to go from 306 bytes to 7Mb with this release, however.

Lightspeed Lisp:
	Unfortunately, this package will not be released, since the name
was deemed to be oxymoronic.

X-rated Windows:
	X-rated windowing package. Includes obscenely-shaped windows,
salacious prompts, erotic background patterns, and mouse cursors shaped
like genitalia. Perfect for the window user with a twelve-year-old's mind.
Warning: susceptible to viruses.

	And for you legal types out there, an actual quote (typo?) from
a University of Utah research paper:
	"Unix is a registered bell of AT&T trademark laboratories."

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