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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.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: 7826 of alt.hackers From: davef@glenatl.glenayre.com (Dave Frascone) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: Did I get in? Date: 15 May 1995 18:05:38 GMT Organization: Glenayre Electronics, Inc. Lines: 32 Approved: by God Message-ID: 3p855i$lu2@babylon5.glenqcy.glenayre.com Reply-To: davef@glenatl.glenayre.com NNTP-Posting-Host: phoenix.glenatl.glenayre.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
Steven M. Loranz (sloranz@xantham.res-hall.nwu.edu) wrote: : 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? cp would have worked: cp /dev/tty file Later, dave
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