Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site eisx.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxl!ulysses!burl!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!eisx!jtb From: jtb@eisx.UUCP (J. Burgess) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Unix Adventure, Part II Message-ID: <686@eisx.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 16:03:18 EST Article-I.D.: eisx.686 Posted: Tue Feb 14 16:03:18 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 06:30:03 EST Organization: American Bell, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 56 The article awhile ago about the Zork Parser for UNIX could be the first of a series. Here's part 2: . . . A disembodied voice says: "You have mail." You are in /usr/src. $ open mailbox There are 5 letters here: 1 from frank dated Feb 2, 1984 about netnews 2 sally Feb 14, 1984 Valentine's Day 3 ... read Sally's letter ... (censored) ... save it in love-letter A new file is created, called "/usr/jtb/love-letter". It has 23 lines. read 1 ... (text of letter from Frank) ... throw it out Frank's letter disappears in a burst of bits. close mailbox You left 4 letters there. You are in /usr/src. $ up You are in /usr. $ up You are in /. $ go home You are in /usr/jtb. $ look There are several files here: dead.letter emacs0 love-letter mbox Two exits are marked: bin and src. You can also go up. $ examine emacs0 It appears to be a rather large file, perhaps a C program. You own it, so I gather that you left it here when you were killed in a previous life. $ ( Ed: I realize that that borders on artificial intelligence, but so what.) $ ... A small dwarf sneaks up behind you and cuts the phone-li... Would anyone else care to continue the sage? John Burgess AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (various places)!eisx!jtb