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Walter Murray <[log in to unmask]>
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Shane Devereaux ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Abbot and Costello meet Unix
: Costello calls Abbott with some questions about UNIX:
: Costello: Hey, Abbott...what is the command that will tell me the
: revision code of a program ?
: Abbott: Yes, that's correct.

Well, I learned something about UNIX from this, but not
what the author intended.  It turns out "yes" is also a
UNIX command.

Costello:  Hey, Abbott, is there a command to be repetitively
affirmative?

Abbott:  Yes.

Costello:  What is it?

Abbott:  No.  Yes!


Or how about ...


Costello:  There is a command to return exit status zero.

Abbott:  True.

Costello:  Then there must be a command to return exit status one.

Abbott:  False.


etc.


Walter

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