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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Re: another funny message - (nf)
Message-ID: <2457@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 04:03:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  7 04:03:46 1984
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#R:masscomp:-18400:fortune:5600002:000:782
fortune!rpw3    Feb  7 00:02:00 1984

Not only that, but the error message had "?" on BOTH sides
and an extra blank line below:

	.CURTIS
	?CURTIS?

	.

If somebody unplugged a terminal on the end of a long line
(allowing capacitive coupling between transmit and receive),
LARGE amounts of CPU time would be eaten, enough to make the
PI3 light glow dim (tty.c, for UNIX folk), continually echoing:

	.
	?noise?

	.?noise?
	???		<--- "?" was a "word" in this context

	.???
	???

	.???
	???

	.???
	???

	.???
	???
	

As far as "FOO.BAR", we used to say foo-dot-bar, so there.

Rob Warnock (formerly [1,2] and [12,12] at Emory)

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