Re: Worst error messages of all time.

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From: k... Ken Brucker
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 18:05

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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
>Anyways, "grok" hasd found its way into the UNIX lexicon
>as a general "I don't understand" lament.

Actually "Can't grok" is equated to an inability to understand.  The term grok
comes from _Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land_ by Robert Hienlien.  To grok something
is to understand it in its fullness or completeness.

Ken

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From: k...@calmasd.Prime.COM (Ken Brucker)
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Subject: Re: Worst error messages of all time.
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