HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ee91alk@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew L Kirby)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.travel
Subject: Re: Floor numbering variations
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:06:58 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK

I seem to remember visiting another University in the UK where the floor levels were given as their height in feet above sea-level. As the university was built on a hill it made finding the right level very confusing indeed!
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Total erasure of hard drive data??
Date: 6 Oct 92 04:32:29 GMT
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA

In article <1992Oct5.211346.12884@ttinews.tti.com> hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:

>In article <BvGL30.6sv@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>}Maybe he just liked solving problems.  Who's the real "bozo" here?
>
>The one who wasted lots of time coming up with a bad solution to a
>non-existant problem.

That it was a bad solution is a good point.  (The fact that the
problem was already solved, though, doesn't mean that it didn't
exist.)

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.urban
From: IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil)
Subject: Re: Renumbering BASIC programs (was Re: Branching in HLL vs. Assembler)
Organization: IUPUI
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 13:53:39 EST

In article <ALANB.92Oct2103303@swordfish.sdl.mdcbbs.com>
alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) writes:
 
>>>>>> On 1 Oct 92 14:54:44 GMT, IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil) said:
>
>> In article <1992Sep19.045941.25377@jpradley.jpr.com>
>> rodd@jpradley.jpr.com (Rod Dorman) writes:
>>
>>>1000 LET N=VAL("A*1") is an even shorter way to get the wrong answer
>>
>> 1000 LET N=1           is an even shorter way to get the wrong answer
 
>Not necessarily - certainly it is longer than LET N=VAL("1")
 
Alan:  you receive an <A> for one-upmanship, but an <F> for reading
comprehension.  What I said was that it was "shorter", not "THE shortest
wrong solution".  Thanks for playing.  As a consolation prize, we've
got a lifesize statue of Marilyn Monroe done by Andy Warhol shortly
before his death.  Oh, and it's made entirely of earwax.
 
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: elkins@hercules.cis.udel.edu (Robert Elkins)
Subject: Re: Origin of the word "Sneakers"
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:12:55 GMT

In article <1686714F4D.IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU> IQTI400@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU (macphil) writes:
>In article <ERIC.92Sep18204503@iceland.telebit.com>
>eric@telebit.com (Eric Smith) writes:
> 
>>government, I certainly wouldn't want to use DES for secure communications.
>>I don't think DES is even considered secure by the US government.
> 
>*snicker* they probably use the knapsack and just don't realize it's
>been defunct for several years.
> 
I think they are playing around with one time pads based on some truely random
source, like the noise in a resister, or maybe even cosmic background noise
in the E/M spectrum.
From: mschenk@research.ptt.nl (Mike Schenk +31 70 33 23926)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: dirty tricks
Date: 6 Oct 92 20:01:18 GMT
Organization: PTT Research

In article <1992Oct6.135525.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>, sbakerjr@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
> When someone leaves their VAX terminal without logging off (fatal mistake)
> I find it hilarious to add the line to the front of thier login.com file...
> 
> $ LOGOFF
> 
> This really creates a riotous situation...

During my graduation project I shared a VMS account with some 
fellow students. I created a symbol LOG*OUT for a command 
procedure which logged out but which also printed an error 
statement which looked something like:

    %DCL-W-FRGMNT, disk fragmented, files may be lost


It took some time before they found out and also the system 
administrators were a bit frustrated!

    Mike
From: ercm20@festival.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: That darn Bug story
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:45:23 GMT

peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <26417@castle.ed.ac.uk> ercm20@festival.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson) writes:
> > arbitrary bases were introduced; the string delimiter was changed from '
> > to " to allow easier distinction between a single character constant (an
> > integer type), say 'A' and string constants, say "A", which were
> 
> That sounds like it influenced or was influenced by C.

I suspect it was parallel evolution - that change happened in about 1978
or 79, I think. 

> > things (for instance the effects of many of C's operators are achieved
> > with what in IMP are syntactically functions - the address of a variable
> > is taken with ADDR(variable-name); mapping a variable onto an address is
> > done with a mapping function, say INTEGER(address).)
> 
> Does this mean pointers are untyped? PL/M does this, and it's a big pain.
> The typed pointers in C or Pascal are much better.

No, pointers are typed, though addresses are integers rather than a
separated address type.  You can of course map a typed pointer to any
address, or the address of a different variable.  For example:

   %integer i, j
   %byte %integer %array b(0:3)

   i = 16_12345678;   ! base 16 number

   b(3-j) = byteinteger(addr(i)+j) %for j = 0,1,3
                      ! extract the bytes from i and put them in b,
                      ! reversing the order using the one-line counted loop
                      ! assumes 4-byte integer, but could be written with
                      ! the 'sizeof' function


or this

   %integer i
   %byte %integer %array %name b
   %byte %integer %array %format fourbyte(0:3)

   b == array(addr(i), fourbyte)
                      ! maps b onto the 4 bytes of i, starting at i's
                      ! address and using the format defined above
                      ! == is the mapping operator

As I say, verbose.  It also shows its age in the relative paucity of
types available.  It would have been nice to update it again (IMP88?). 

Sam
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: phillips@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Christopher Phillips)
Subject: Re: Strange streets (was: Thoughts)
Organization: Elec Eng, Univ of Western Australia
Date:  1 Oct 92 08:22:27 GMT

msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:

>Someone mentioned streets with different names for the two sides.  I've
>seen at least two examples of this in England.  I particularly liked the
>one where the house numbers ran:

>	|             1  2  3 ...
>	|-------------------------
>	| 1  2  3  4  5  6  7 ...

Not quite as silly, but part of a street near where I live was renamed
when they decided to let people build houses on it.  Reason?
They were on the wrong side of house #1!  I just think it's a real pity
they didn't just go to negative house numbers ;)

--
Christopher Jam	__________________________________________________
phillips@swanee.ee.uwa.edu.au			c64 forever!!!!
300,000 c64's were sold in the fiscal year ending June 1991 :)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Floor numbering
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:27:57 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Oct5.031851.6049@u.washington.edu>, tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
> The first floor button in the elavator in the EE building at Caltech
> has a ground symbol.

Well, the Columbia University Math Building is at 3010 Broadway, so the
address painted on the building is

	Log_10 2 = .3010
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: thoughts
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 07:07:02 GMT

In article <26354@castle.ed.ac.uk> ercm20@festival.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson) writes:
>
>>   Incidentally, in Manhattan, West 12th Street crosses West 12th
>>   Street.  I still haven't figured that one out...
>
>I don't think we've got anything quite like that - crazy New Yorkers!

Isn't the intersection of "West 12th Street" and "Little West 12th Street"
which means something a bit different.

cjl (There is a 1/2 block long street in Brooklyn named Force Tube Avenue)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler)
Subject: Re: Total erasure of hard drive data??
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:22:55 GMT

twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:

>In article <1992Sep30.204200.15817@javelin.sim.es.com> gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:

>>I once worked with a guy who went through a lot of trouble to write a program
>>in C to switch a vt220 terminal to pass-through print mode, output a text file,
>>then switch the terminal back to normal mode.  When I told him that it could be
>>done in a 6 line shell script, and in fact it already had been done and was
>>available on the system, he didn't seem to care.  I guess he just liked wasted
>>effort.

>Maybe he just liked solving problems.  Who's the real "bozo" here?

>-- 
>____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
>\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
> \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham

Well let's just reinvent the wheel.  Who wants to start by rewriting "cat"?
And let's do it in assembler for performance reasons.  Wasted effort is wasted
effort.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Floor numbering
Date: 29 Sep 92 17:02:28 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com


The library at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, designed by
the late architect Louis Kahn, has floors numbered (from the entrance
level upwards) Ground, 1, 1M ("M" for Mezzanine), 2, 2M, 3, 3M, and 4
-- i.e., eight floors, each of which is of normal height (10 feet 
or so).  There are also a couple of sub-ground levels (basements).

I was a student there when it was built.  The UL among the students
was that the fire-safety ordinance of the town of Exeter prohibited
buildings over four stories high, because the fire-engines' ladders
couldn't reach higher than that.  So to get away with building an
8-story building, Kahn named half the floors "ground" or "mezzanines."

The UL was given credibility by the fact that there were, in fact,
no other buildings in town over 4 stories high.  But, of course, a 
fire-safety code would certainly specify a maximum height in feet, not 
in floors, wouldn't it?  

Probably this UL falls in the category of "our group [the students]
are smarter than they [the residents of the town] are, and here's
'proof' of how we outfoxed them."
-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Manager, SAS Institute Inc., Cary NC 27513
From: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been reading news too long when...
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 21:42:35 PDT
Reply-To: aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us



... when the 'N'-key's imprint of N starts to fade away...

Aki.

(I have one of those older news readers)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris)
Subject: Re: dirty tricks (was: The funniest bug)
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:09:44 GMT

aldavi01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis) writes:

>Apparently, the desk at one of the centers on campus at U of Louisville gets
>the "Where's the any key?" question a little *too* often, because some
>thoughtful lab worker pasted labels that say "ANY" on the front of every
>space bar in the lab.

>*sigh*

Back when I was working at Huge Aircrash the guy in the next cubicle was
the PC helper for a few scientists (one of those "other duties as
assigned" on the job description...).  I distinctly remember him telling
one idiot "The 'any' key - that's shift-space", and another one (on his
5th call from the same jerk in one day) "It's the big red key on the
right side".

sigh

-- 
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PO Box 1130            | 
Arcadia, CA. 91077     | All opinions must be my own since nobody pays
818-447-7052 evenings  | me enough to be their mouthpiece...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: dirty tricks
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:20:36 GMT

In article <1as4v9INNeda@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:

>But it's not very subtle. Try adding
>
>$ lo*gout := write sys$output "No, I want to stay here"
>
>instead. Sort of delayed action...

And then, if you go on to add

$ eoj := ...
$ stop := ...

then you *really* have to go into the woodwork to fix yourself.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
Subject: Re: Total erasure of hard drive data??
Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 04:31:11 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.182255.13846@javelin.sim.es.com> gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:
>twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Sep30.204200.15817@javelin.sim.es.com> gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:
>
>>>When I told him that it could be
>>>done in a 6 line shell script, and in fact it already had been done and was
>>>available on the system, he didn't seem to care.  I guess he just liked wasted
>>>effort.
>
>>Maybe he just liked solving problems.  Who's the real "bozo" here?
>
>Well let's just reinvent the wheel.  Who wants to start by rewriting "cat"?

Rewriting "grep", on the other hand -- especially if you own a DOS box
or something else without such a utility -- is not a particularly bad
idea.  (And don't remind me that I can get this from the GNUish
project.  I did it before I had Internet access, okay?)

>And let's do it in assembler for performance reasons.  Wasted effort is wasted
>effort.

But if it wasn't wasted effort in the first place, it's a moot point.

-- 
____ Tim Pierce                / "You are just naive and repressed because
\  / twpierce@unix.amherst.edu /  penis envy is here and it's now and it's
 \/ (BITnet: TWPIERCE@AMHERST) /  all around you." -- Neal C. Wickham
From: dev-null@lorc.UUCP (The NULL device)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The third variable.
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 08:09:47 EDT
Organization: LORC Enterprises

rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla) writes:
> In article <1992Sep22.234259.9123@nezsdc.icl.co.nz> andrewb@nezsdc.icl.co.nz 
> >In article <2027@sdrc.COM> scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones) writes:
> >>In article <1992Sep21.045335.15576@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.col
> >>> In article <1992Sep18.220114.10940@newstand.syr.edu> mgilbert@rodan.acs.s
> >>> >
> >>> >There *is* no variable number 6.
> >>> 
> >>> No, I am number 2, *you* are number 6.
> >>
> >>I am not a number, I am a free(3C) man!
> >>
> >>> cj "what we seek is *information*" l
> >>
> >>You won't get it!
> >
> >By hook or by crook we will!
> Whois number NULL?

I am the only true dev-null.  There are no others.  There can be no others.
All bits that go to the bit-bucket are my possession. Not only are they my
possession, but they are quite TASTY.... I want your dead bits!

dev-null@lorc.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: aldavi01@terra.spd.louisville.edu (Arlie Davis)
Subject: Re: hacking too long
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:01:34 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville

In <1992Oct6.134852.1@cc.curtin.edu.au> sbakerjr@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:

> I was looking for a street in the local road directory and it suddenly
> occurred to me that it would be a brilliant idea to include a ^Qf function 
> in street directories.

What you have come across is the Urge To Grep.

"You can't grep dead trees."

> Turbo C users may understand...

Or emacs, vi, etc...  Hell, some shells will even grep their
command history.

> JoHnNo

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
From: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Subject: Re: You know when you're hacking too long when...
Reply-To: rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Robert Bernecky)
Organization: Snake Island Research Inc, Toronto
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 16:04:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.012351.3001@geovision.gvc.com> pt@geovision.gvc.com writes:
>igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep18.075936.20819@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> 9125113g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:
>>> Every five minutes, he freezes solid for about thirty seconds then 
>>> continues on as if nothing ever happened.

This reminds me of something Jim McGinnis said last summer. He was
teaching a course in Computability and Complexity Theory, and got
a bit tangled up on some abstruse point, while lecturing in front of
the (much too large) class of 100 or so students. Sez he:

"You've got remember that I'm standing up here in front of you, and
that's good for 60 points off your IQ right there."

Bob





Robert Bernecky      rbe@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.com  bernecky@itrchq.itrc.on.ca 
Snake Island Research Inc  (416) 368-6944   FAX: (416) 360-4694 
18 Fifth Street, Ward's Island
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9 
Canada
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.computers:14534 talk.bizarre:32066
From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: You know when you're hacking too long when...
Date: 29 Sep 92 01:23:51 GMT
Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario

igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes:
>In article <1992Sep18.075936.20819@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> 9125113g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:
>> Every five minutes, he freezes solid for about thirty seconds then 
>> continues on as if nothing ever happened.

>I know how he feels.  Aphasia.

I was going to say that, but I blanked out for a minute.

(-: Sorry...

-- 
Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
(This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read"
 -- Joshua Heller (heller2@husc.harvard.edu) on rec.humor.funny
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK))
Subject: Re: "Any" key
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:27:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.233546.12329@gagme.chi.il.us> pv@gagme.chi.il.us (Paul Vader) writes:
>In the few situations where I have actually coded a "press any key to
>continue" prompt, I have always defined a few keys to generate a response
>of "except that one" and go back into the loop. PV
>
>
>-- 
>Paul Vader           Systems Analyst, semi-lurker, Rollerblader,
>pv@gagme.chi.il.us   ex-Zen poet, FOAF, and bleeding-heart liberal

Anytime I tried to include something humorous in my programs for any
classes I took, I'd get points off.  Real fun guys those graders... 

--Jason "and femorous too" Balicki
kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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From: goodridg@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew Goodridge)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction
Subject: Re: Zork/Dungeon (was Re: MDL)
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:58:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep30.125808.15973
Organization: Harvard University Science Center


[Lots of back and forth discussion of ZORK and MIT and Infocom]

I'm on a MASSIVE Infocom kick right now; I'd LIKE to get the "Real" story.
That whole discussion about MIT maintaining copyrights and Infocom making
money off of a college hack and all was completely WRONG, and I haven't
even started my research in any amount yet.

I DO know that Infocom was FOUNDED by Several MIT Students, including Mark
Blank and David Lebling, so the whole copyright thing came from NOwhere.

My problem is my youth. I'm only 22; I was 7 or 8 when Zork was worked on.
I'm not very regretful; I got to see 16 million colors before I was 19.
But it means I'm starting at a disadvantage. 

As for the locations of code and stuff, I've been looking into that as well.
This is what ARCHIE was created for. It's great.

So yes, if anyone was there or knows something accurately enough, I'd
like to know Infocom's story. For real.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dboyes@is.rice.edu (David E Boyes)
Subject: Re: You know when you're hacking too long when...
Organization: Rice University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:31:29 GMT

I just thought of something -- when is it time to *retire*? 

I was working on some documentation this morning and I caught
myself saying "does this go in area A or area B?"

You folks that have actually written COBOL understand. 

I'm getting too old for this...


-- 
David Boyes
dboyes@rice.edu
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.games.int-fiction
From: dave@lynx.mn.org (David Messer)
Subject: Re: Screen colors (Was Re: Zork/Dungeon)
Organization: Lynx Data Systems
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 03:55:43 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.215954.1465@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
 >nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) writes:
 >
 >>In article <1992Sep30.125808.15973@husc3.harvard.edu>
 >>goodridg@husc8.harvard.edu (Andrew Goodridge) writes:
 >
 >>> My problem is my youth. I'm only 22;
 
In time, that problem will be solved...

 >>Where did you see 16 million colors? Not on *one* screen at a time, I
 >>suppose, or I'd like to see that screen.
 >
 >Maybe he just went outside? :-P

Not likely:  The human eye is only capable of resolving about
300-400,000 colors.  Assuming he is in fact human of course.  :)
-- 
Vote for Bush!                       | David Messer       dave@lynx.mn.org -or-
    He's been sick.                  | Lynx Data Systems  ..!tcnet!lynxds!dave
From: okes@essex.ac.uk (Oke S)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Total erasure of hard drive data??
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:48:56 GMT
	<1992Sep29.190519.12086@ttinews.tti.com>
	<1992Sep30.204200.15817@javelin.sim.es.com>
	<BvGL30.6sv@unix.amherst.edu>
	<1992Oct5.182255.13846@javelin.sim.es.com>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, UK.
In-reply-to: gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com's message of 5 Oct 92 18:22:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.182255.13846@javelin.sim.es.com> gfowler@javelin.sim.es.com (Gary Fowler) writes:
| Well let's just reinvent the wheel.  Who wants to start by rewriting "cat"?
| And let's do it in assembler for performance reasons.  Wasted effort is wasted
| effort.

Done that. I use a shell called Gulam on my ST which has a builtin cat.
Unfortunately it's a primitive cat (sabre-toothed tiger?) which can't redirect
to a file. So I wrote my own: about a screenfull of (nicely indented, spaced)
C.
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