This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Did I get in?
Article: 7807 of alt.hackers From: "Steven M. Loranz" <sloranz@xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu> Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Did I get in? Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 11:41:41 -0500 Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Lines: 40 Approved: well thank you Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.91.950512112750.1005A-100000@xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu Reply-To: "Steven M. Loranz" <sloranz@nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3ovrv4$j5v@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu> Status: RO
On 12 May 1995, Jeremy Todd Dilatush wrote:
> Steven M. Loranz (sloranz@xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu) wrote:
> : didn't want. I know...this is lame and is well known amongst the UNIX
> : gods...but I felt good that I could fix it without too much thought
>
> Using "cat" to edit a file is damn simple (I do it because
I'm too lazy often
> to fire up emacs or learn vi) ... using it when you need to fix something
> should count as a hack, though.
>
> A _real_ hack is when you don't have "cat" so you write a script
> (ObHack:)
> #!/bin/sh
> tee /dev/null
>
Ouch!!! Damn...I said I knew it was lame...I even put a question mark
after the ObHack to stress that...but I couldn't think of anything
recently that was a way to fix a problem.
So what did you write the script with if you didn't use an editor and
didn't have cat?
ObLearningHack: Trying to finish a backfinger that uses RFC931 and
compliant. When I get it working properly (Hey I'm hopefull) I'll give
it a very simple X window kinda like xbiff or xconsole.
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