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From: smarks@trantor.Eng.Sun.COM (Stuart Marks)
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 21:01:00 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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In article <40o73o$r6r@nova.netapp.com>, guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> 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".
I just *knew* this thread would elicit a reply from Guy Harris!
Those of you who wish to re-create the TECO behavior on Solaris
can do the following:
$ cat >> /usr/share/lib/make/make.rules
love:
@echo 'NOT WAR?'
^D
(As with all Makefiles, be careful of tabs.)
(And no, I will *not* file a bug to have this rule added to the system. :-)
> ("/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:
That's Soren Tirfing. "Stjarna" was his hostname.
s'marks
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