[Info-vax] April 1, in hindsight

Michael Moroney moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
Sat Apr 14 09:44:59 EDT 2012


DTL <didier.morandi at gmail.com> writes:

>I do remember "my" first aprilfool.exe message file, back in 1984.
>Any erroneous entry to DCL yielded a "%DCL-W-IVVERB, Stick it in your hear"=
> error message :-)

I set a system to use the Aprilfool message file on a system.  Little did 
I know there was a demo of what we were doing that day.  A few odd 
messages popped up, I don't know if the bigwig noticed.

You must have a different april fool message file. The one I have does
the following for %DCL-W-IVVERB:

$ sekjdfjkl
%DCL-W-IVVERB, that's a pretty silly thing to type
SEKJDFJKL... say, whut?
$ 



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