yechiel@aecom.UUCP (Yechiel Corn) (03/16/84)
In going through my old files, I came across this Purim-worthy manual page developed a couple of years ago. It will be especially appreciated by all the YU & Stern College alumni out there (and I have seen a number of them contributing to net.religion.jewish) Enjoy and Chag Purim Sameach!! Yechiel Corn ============================================================================ Here is the manual to a new and prosperous program developed solely on purim or when we were stoned, stewed, or otherwise influenced (i.e., mind altering substances). Here is the manual page... ^D(1) Yom revii 15 Adar 5742 ^D(1) NAME ^D (<control D>) SYNOPSIS ^D [options] [files] [filesystems] [directories] [uid wanted] [name of current root user] [stern girls to be notified] ... DESCRIPTION ^D is a non interactive program to be used only in background mode. It is used to terminate or creat ghost shells, unkillable processes, forkathons, fileathons, exceedsathons, and telethons (for Jerry's kids). It may be used only when there is a fullsave in action or when there is an incremental save that is bombing. As a safety feature a new logger appears on the terminal when ^D is invoked. The program will not slow down the system since it only uses up next week's cpu time. The options may be specified in any order or even on different lines. The meaning of the options are as follows: ^a - takes a string of the form YYMMDD. ^D will then postpone its usage of the cpu till that date + 7 days unless its February which in case it will use it 28 days in advance. ^b - balance books. Randomizes the exceeds and charges data bases. The seed for the rand() is the time() x-ored with the first 20 locations after the mem sys error trap vector divided by the number of users and masked with the number of unused uid's. ^c - crash. As opposed to the maint command shutdown(1m) this command brings the system down in an inorderly fashion. It first sends a kill -21 to the scheduler which means sit on it and rotate to the left 7 bits. It then overwrites the superblock with sunday's comics, and proceeds to dump all of core backwards and puts it in /etc/utmp. It then takes the twelfth 400 bytes of that dump and overwrites the boot block. ^d - dumps and cleans all of core and puts it in operator's out basket. ^e - enter the self destruct sequence. The program will prompt you for the destruct code. Please unfasten your seatbelts. The no smoking sign will go on and the stewardess will inform you to walk to the rear of the disk drives. ^f - creat new born computers. A message of the form "F@#$" will be typed. This portion of the program is not supported. ^s - swap user id's with your neighbor's wife. DIAGNOSTICS AECOM UNIX User: or WOW!! for the ^s and ^f options. CAVE MAN This program was developed on IGOR - the IBM 1130 BCE. PAC MAN GRUPPA GRUPPA BUGS This program has been known to work. REVISION LEVEL 0.2 This manual describes versions 2.2 and above. RESTRICTIONS Drivers license required. AUTHORS Robert Berlinger (naftoli) Elliott Adler (eadler) currently exceeded so... (who) Larry Freund (freund) Charlie Straus (jarnagin), (schertz), (root?) PUBLISHER Yechiel Corn (corn), (regis), (root), (hotline), etc. -32767-