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From: gilbertmm@sdf.org (Gilbert Morgan)
Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 19:44:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8AE10DB9-3685-4E07-AA94-B991D41D8D9D@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140510002011.IEnjtHhZ%sdaoden@yandex.com>

Haha, wasn't Mark Twain who famously butchered it this way?


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gilbertmm at sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System -http://sdf.org

> On May 9, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden at yandex.com> wrote:
> 
> |Found in:
> |
> |  http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=1BSD/s6/man.c
> |
> |this minor gem:
> |
> | execl("/bin/ssp", "ssp", 0);
> | execl("/usr/bin/ssp", "ssp", 0);
> | printf("Can't find ssp!\n");
> | execl("/bin/cat", "cat", 0);
> | printf("or cat - gott in himmel!\n");
> | exit(1);
> |
> |Not as good as "hodie natus" (Google it if you don't know of it - it's a
> |classic), but mildly amusing.
> 
> Correct Deutsch would however be "Gott im Himmel".
> 
> --steffen
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-09 21:07 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-09 23:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-09 23:44   ` Gilbert Morgan [this message]
2014-05-10 10:51     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 15:05       ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-10 20:18         ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 21:39           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 22:20             ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 23:30               ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-10 23:41                 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11  5:14             ` Ori Idan
2014-05-11  6:00               ` John Cowan

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