Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:10:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, "Dag-Erling C. Smf8rgrav" <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/who who.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980427080604.24681E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpiunvk1wn.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On 27 Apr 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> writes: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 at 12:10:52PM -0700, Dag-Erling C. Smf8rgrav wrote: > > > Check that user really typed "who am {I,i}", and that no stray > > > arguments are given. > > The end of an era... > > > > $ who kicks ass > > mph ttyp0 Apr 22 17:33 (:0.0) > > I though about patching who so that "who are you" returned "I am the > computer, you ditz!", but it added one level of indent and made half > of main() wider than 80 chars so I dropped it :) There was a message recently on some newsgroup I read that some obscure (probably extinct now) vendor's cat(1) command would output (on stderr I hope!) "Meow" if nothing could be read from stdin (and stdin is a terminal I hope!) for a period of time....Maybe an urban legend, but interesting. -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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