UNIX Error Messages

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Date: 06-26-89 (16:36)          Number: 55362
To: ALL                       Refer#: NONE      1 msgs LEFT in thread
From: JARED SPOOL                 Read: YES
Subj: UNIX HUMOR                  Conf: (0) Main Board

The following are example UNIX shell commands and the system's
response:

% rm meese-ethics
rm: meese-ethics nonexistent

% ar m God
ar: God does not exist

% "How would you rate Reagan's incompetence?
Unmatched ".

% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].

% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.

% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.

% make love
Make:  Don't know how to make love.  Stop.

% sleep with me
bad character

% got a light?
No match.

% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.

% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.

% %blow
%blow: No such job.

% \(-
(-: Command not found.

$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending!

$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found

$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create

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 * QDeLuxe 1.01 #1129  Jared M. Spool, An experiment that might work.