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From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Subject: [TUHS] made up errno contest, at an early USENIX
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 06:12:21 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201410021212.s92CCL1L015109@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141002114626.GA548@www.oztivo.net>

Hi Warren.

Really cool.

Can you grep for EMRED?  (Doesn't match ENO).

Thanks!

Arnold

Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:19:58PM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about
> > it on this list before.)
> > At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in
> > Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values.
>
> I'm back from a trip to Cania Gorge in Queensland Australia where there is
> next to no phone reception.
>
> When I scanned in the old AUUG newsletters, I told the photocopier to also
> do OCR. This means that I can do this to the scanned files:
>
> for i in *.pdf
> do j=`echo $i | sed 's/pdf/txt/'`
>    echo $j
>    pdftotext $i
>    grep ENO $j
>    rm $j
> done
>
> Yet another reason why Unix is so much better :-) Here are the results
> which will help Arnold out with his question.
>
> Cheers, Warren
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/
>
> ...



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-02 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-27 19:19 Aharon Robbins
2014-09-27 20:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-27 20:58   ` Warren Toomey
2014-09-27 21:16     ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-28 10:01   ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-28 15:04     ` Ronald Natalie
2014-09-28 16:22       ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-09-27 20:41 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-09-27 21:09 ` Clem Cole
2014-09-28  4:44   ` arnold
2014-09-28  4:54     ` Larry McVoy
2014-09-28 14:06 ` John Cowan
2014-10-02 11:46 ` Warren Toomey
2014-10-02 12:12   ` arnold [this message]
2014-10-02 22:19     ` Warren Toomey
2014-10-03  9:24       ` arnold
2014-10-02 14:52   ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2014-10-02 13:00 Norman Wilson

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