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In article <wZfVc0200...@andrew.cmu.edu> sa...@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) writes:
   Before I relate my story,  I'd just like to make a little correction
   to the "rm *" discussion.  Somebody pointed out the common mistake of
   not SHIFT'ing in time when typing "rm *.o", getting "rm *>o", and
   claimed that you get just one empty file named "o".  Actually, the
   shell creates the file "o" before calling rm, so the command unlinks
   that, too;  you get nothing at all in your directory.  (Not that you'd
   be worrying about this minor fact when all your sources are gone,
   but...)


I guess this depends on your shell.  sh does wildcard expansion
before it creates redirection files.  csh creates the file, then does
wildcard expansion.  I personally think that csh does it wrong.


	   > LIST
	   Pirate! BLECHHH!

	   > _

   Pretty frustrating, and the code is still lying around at the BHU
   computer center. I wonder if anyone knows how it works....

Send it to a printer.  People were always pulling stunts like this on
the old Commodore PETs.  The printers would just produce a graphics
symbol for non-printable characters and the whole listing would be
generated intact.  Your printer may differ.


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Andrew Thomas
and...@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus