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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!vtc.tacom.army.mil!news1.oakland.edu!news.concourse.com!braintree!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!in2.uu.net!spcuna!ritz!bet From: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <40mvjn$kcc@jupiter.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> <40n581$m78@jupiter.sdd.cegelecproj.co.uk> <40nfkn$f43@centralnews1.central.sun.com> Organization: Mordor International BBS - Jersey City, NJ Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 16:07:03 GMT Message-ID: <DDB63r.437@ritz.mordor.com> Distribution: inet Lines: 25 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:50943 comp.unix.solaris:43202 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:545 >> > Good stuff. "Move love" is still broken, though. :-) >[...] >Wasn't that a TECO-ism? TECO had a command "make", for creating new files, and when you said "make love" it would reply "not war?". Unix has long said make: don't know how to make love. Stop which some folks thought funny (though not as good as TECO, of course). Suns, both under SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.x, say make: *** No rule to make target `love'. Stop. And to close the circuit, back in 1986 or so I was administering some 3B5s at Duke; they ran System V, of course, but this was a pretty old System V, and so wasn't too much worse than Version 7. For fun one afternoon I hacked make to offer the TECO behavior. I special-cased the error-reporting, so everything would work unchanged if you had a [mM]akefile with a target "love". -Bennett bet@mordor.com