RE: its a pretty amusing joke... (code/geek humor)

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Author: Carruth, Rusty
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Subject: RE: its a pretty amusing joke... (code/geek humor)
Ah, I think you're right - it was on either Solaris or SunOS that I last had it work!

 Rusty

> -----Original Message-----

....
>
> I don't think GNU make ever had that particular feature turned on by
> default.
> I did get that to work at least once, but I can't remember if it was
> with FreeBSD or Solaris or SunOS.
>
> There's a list of Unix commands that you can type in that have
> funny/silly/unexpected results at
> http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~steinl/vitser/unixfun.html . F'rexample, start
> a csh and type:
>
> If I had a ( for every $ the Congress spent, what would I have?
>
> ...however, thanks to improvements and changes in csh and sh over the
> years, not all of them produce the error messages they used to.
>


Ah, yes, but they don't even have it right. It was actually:

% make love
Not war
%


Rusty
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