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From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish
Date: 14 Aug 1995 12:10:48 -0700
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Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC Grenoble <smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM> wrote:
>Wasn't that a TECO-ism?
Well, yes, there *was* a TECOism wherein the command "MAKE LOVE" printed
the message "Not war?" (or, possibly, "NOT WAR?", as that was back in
the days when most terminals only supported upper-case) before creating
a file named "LOVE".
However, there's also a UNIXism; "make"s derived from the original Bell
Labs "make" will, if you do "make love" and there's no [Mm]akefile rule
for "love", say:
nova% /usr/old/make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
("/usr/old/make", in SunOS 4.x, is basically an SVR2 "make", which is
derived from the original Bell Labs "make". "/usr/bin/make" is Soren
Stjarna's rewrite, which doesn't have quite as amusing a message:
nova% /usr/bin/make love
make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `love'
GNU "make" isn't much better:
nova% /usr/local/bin/make love
make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop.
.)