Creating :->file
John Chambers
jc at mit-athena.UUCP
Fri Apr 26 07:16:05 AEST 1985
> Come on, the only real way to do it is:
> :-> file
> Credit to: Jyrki Yli-Nokari
> ...mcvax!enea!tut!jty
No sooner said than done! This struck me as a real good idea,
so I quit from readnews and typed:
cat >:-.c
main(){return 0;}
^D
cc -o :- :-.c
After a brief pause, I checked and found a garbage file called
"test", so I typed:
:->test
:->footest
ls -l *test
and it showed that "test" and "footest" both existed, and were
empty. Thanks a lot for the idea for the new system utility!
The only problem is that, on Berkeley Unix, I can't rcp the source
file to another system. The ':' in the name causes really bizzarre
behavior. Oh well....
--
John Chambers [...!decvax!mit-athena]
He who has made no mistakes has probably made nothing at all.
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