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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


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