Re: Unix witticisms

Russell Page <RussellPage(a)foxhat.net> wrote: |On 6/10/2017 1:26 AM, Ron Natalie wrote: ... |> There was a contest back on UNIX-WIZARDS in the day to generate new errno |> codes. My favorite was ELECTROLUX - Your code needs cleaning up. |> |> A joke issue of the Computation Center at UT Austin's newsletter |> (Universally Plexus at Autism) had an item about UNIX Pipes not permitted \ |> in |> non-smoking areas. I think that was also the source of the "Cannot \ |> fork-- |> Try again during lunch" quote. ... |ENOTOBACCO - call would block on empty pipe. You know, i liked that so much when i have heard this first that the BSD Mail i maintain uses the following as a catch-all error: ?0!0/NONE[#/var/spool/mail/steffen]? echo \ $^ERR-1000: $^ERRNAME-1000: $^ERRDOC-1000 255: NOTOBACCO: Snorkeling on empty pipe --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)