and another unix joke

Stephen J. Friedl friedl at vsi.UUCP
Sat Sep 24 15:21:53 AEST 1988


In article <1293 at cbnews.ATT.COM>, lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
> One joke that got a lot of laughs here was to change a users PS1
> prompt while they were logged in by adb'ing their shell process.
> This is a good way to learn about the UNIX(tm) operating system!

Related indirectly: one of my customers has a couple of programmers
working on various systems, and one individual cannot seem to test
his programs very well -- the whole DP staff knows what a core dump
means.  Instead of the normal message:

	Memory fault - core dumped

we patched the shell to say

	Rogers fault - core dumped

     Steve

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