Re: [TUHS] A man easter-egg (gimme gimme gimme) - TUHS

23 Nov 2017

Warner Losh &lt;imp(a)bsdimp.com&gt; wrote:

...
  On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 9:11 AM,
&lt;arnold(a)skeeve.com&gt; wrote:

  Ian Zimmerman &lt;itz(a)very.loosely.org&gt;
wrote:

  On 2017-11-22 01:48, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:

  Try:

     gawk --nostalgia 
 ~$ gawk --nostalgia
 awk: bailing out near line 1
 Aborted

 Maybe it still needs a program? 
 No, that was the joke. Early Unix awk used to say exactly that
 message, on almost any problem, often followed by a core dump.

 (I never claimed the easter egg was non-lame.)

 There were T-Shirts of this at early conferences as well. Showed a picture
 of a vaguely puffin-like bird baling  of an airplane made up of what looked
 like ascii characters {}()|/... Google is unable find one though, so my
 memory may be rusty here...

 Warner 
I have such a shirt. Maybe I can scan it. :-)

Arnold