and another unix joke

Capt Mark R. Avery mavery at dlag1.UUCP
Thu Sep 22 02:30:53 AEST 1988


>From article <26159 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, by haynes at ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Haynes):
> On a 4.3BSD system -
> 
> %mail -u nobody
> No mail for nobody
> 
> (which is, of course grammatically correct!)

Then there's always

%mail -u anybody
No mail for anybody

(which is also grammatically correct, but likely wrong!)
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