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In article <1990Sep14....@cimage.com> gr...@cimage.com (Greg
Cronau/1000000) writes:

| In article <1990Sep11.2...@dg-rtp.dg.com> dur...@dg-rtp.dg.com (Lindsey Durway) writes:
| >On Data General AOS/VS systems, you will see that the root
| >dates from 1967.  Do this:
| >
| >) f/s/as : <NL>
| >
| >This may not be so on AOS/VS-II systems.
| >
| >Another fun fact about AOS/VS systems is this:  guess what
| >happens when you type "xyzzy"?  No joke--it's written
| >into the system.
| 
| So, what happens? Does it tell you that you're back in the little building?

It says 'nothing happens' normally.  However, unlike any other CLI
command, it first searches to see if xyzzy.cli is in your searchlist,
and if so, it executes that rather than doing the builtin processing.
Normally in the CLI, you could not override builtin commands except by
patching the binary to rename the command.  Somebody on one of the
internal AOS/VS development machines made a xyzzy.cli macro that would
use one of the 10 CLI variables, and produce different messages each
time it was invoked.  One of the messages was that a little dwarf
throughs an STR (software trouble report) at you, but I may be
mis-remembering it.
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