Re: Another secret message

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From: ev... Evan A.C. Hunt
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 07:58

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	Someone once pointed out to me that the command 'core' at a
Mail prompt would cause the mailer to dump core and print the message
"Okey dokey--core dumped." (This was under V7, I don't know if the
feature's still there.)

	So I tried it, giggled a little, and then ran 'strings' on the
core file, and somewhere in there I found the message "Thou hast new mail."

	I tried for _weeks_ to figure out under what circumstances the
mailer would actually print that.  I never did find out.

-- 
    Evan A.C. Hunt			ev...@sco.COM	
    The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.	uunet!sco!evanh 
    (408) 425-7222			evanh%...@ucscc.ucsc.EDU

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From: ev...@sco.COM (Evan A.C. Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Another secret message
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Date: 22 Dec 89 07:58:17 GMT
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