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Conference noted::hackers_v1

Title:-={ H A C K E R S }=-
Notice:Write locked - see NOTED::HACKERS
Moderator:DIEHRD::MORRIS
Created:Thu Feb 20 1986
Last Modified:Mon Aug 03 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:680
Total number of notes:5456

403.0. "Some harmless (mind-bending) fun" by WKRP::LENNIG (Dave, SWS, @CYO Cincinnati) Fri Feb 06 1987 02:25

    Want to test your buddies? Drive somebody nuts? Try this...
    
    The set up (behind their back, obviously) ...
    
    $SPAWN/OUT=ERR.TXT TYPE README.TXT
    $RENAME ERR.TXT README.TXT
    
    The punchline (what's wrong with this picture)
    
    $DIR/FU README.TXT
    	.
    	.
    	.
    $TYPE README.TXT
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Name		DateLines
403.1It was hard...BARNA::SOLEPONTFri Feb 13 1987 15:139
	6 months ago I put myself in this situation, *INADVERTENDLY*.
	I was using DEFINE SYS$OUTPUT, TYPE and RENAME.

				And it happened...

	My brain suffered 5 minutes of  8`}  continuous   "Internal 
	consistency checks" until I told DCL to DUMP the file.

	*Jaume
403.2%MAIL-W-NET_POLICEVAXUUM::DYERRock the BellsTue Feb 17 1987 14:465
Here's a good message to MAIL to somebody:

%MAIL-W-CENSORED, server parser detects text inappropriate for this network

<_Jym_>