From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 1 09:09:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA12665 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:09:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from cypher.net (black@zen.pratt.edu [205.232.115.155]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA12658 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 09:09:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from black@localhost) by cypher.net (8.8.5/8.7.1) id MAA03544; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:08:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:08:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ben Black To: Lee Crites cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'GET A LIFE' doesn't work In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970401161717.0068189c@adonai.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk reminds me of my coworker's .sig... #!/usr/bin/perl -- Matthew Cable -- USA.NET -- Senior System Administrator $fof='8a*)v2*^Gf#*5S="!jh!;F)]#T):)#&f5kR^(%!E#;0>#:|#8)#;P#80#:o#;)#; b3n On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Lee Crites wrote: > >> > echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|d > >Looks like it's supposed to echo "GET A LIFE!", but out of HP-UX 10.10, > >Solaris 2.5, IRIX 6.2, AIX 3.2 and AIX 4.1.4, only the AIX 3.2 system did > >that. The rest of 'em returned without echoing anything. > > Reminds me of that old 12-days-of-Christmas c program which was so > obfuscated that 99.9998% of the people could never figure out what it was > supposed to do, until they ran it, that is, and even then, most people > couldn't understand how it did it... > > (now was that a runon sentence, or what?) > > Lee >