Re: stupid/smart users

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From: je... Jesse Rendleman
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 1990 16:45

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I don't look at these little anecdotes as derogatory (for the most
part), after all most of us have made a silly mistake or two.

Here's a dialog, related to me by one of my co-workers, who was helping
a novice unix user, and needed to check a configuration file..

support-engr> ...ok, do a "more" on /etc/hosts.

customer> it says, "moron: command not found".

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