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Re: Lights on Burroughs machines

From	"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Lights on Burroughs machines
Date	2016-03-23 14:26 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<ncuqf0$lt1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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<tracymnelson@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:4611e712-c4d2-46ab-a084-4ad4e771c8b9@googlegroups.com...
> On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 11:21:21 PM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> I once came across a little executable called XYZZY.
>> Whenever you ran it, it said, "Nothing happens."
>
> I have these two lines in my .profile:
>
> alias xyzzy="echo Nothing happens."
> alias plugh="echo You'''re at end of road again."

In the Colossal Cave Adventure game, "plugh" does *not* put you at the end 
of the road.  "Plugh" moves you between the well house and Y2.

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numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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Re: Lights on Burroughs machines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-03-10 15:26 -0800
  Re: Lights on Burroughs machines Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-11 04:20 +0000
    Re: Lights on Burroughs machines "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-11 16:29 -0600
    Re: Lights on Burroughs machines tracymnelson@gmail.com - 2016-03-22 09:44 -0700
      Re: Lights on Burroughs machines "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-23 14:26 -0500
  Re: Lights on Burroughs machines scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-03-11 14:07 +0000
  Re: Lights on Burroughs machines "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-03-11 16:25 -0600

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