claudio@ethz.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) (10/21/86)
[Eat this one if you can. ]
Last night I got (once again) a guru meditation:
84000009.48454C50
I noticed the strange address, and tried to translate it to ASCII:
48454C50
H E L P
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In article <391@ethz.UUCP> claudio@ethz.UUCP (Claudio Nieder) writes: > >Last night I got (once again) a guru meditation: > > 84000009.48454C50 > >I noticed the strange address, and tried to translate it to ASCII: > > 48454C50 > H E L P You can sometimes translate the guru meditation number '84000009' into text by looking it up in the exec/alerts.h file In this case Intuition noticed something wrong and decided it was better to stop before any more harm was done. The 'HELP' message is a catch word for exec. When exec finds out it cannot put up an alert with the system in it's current state, it puts "HELP" in location 0, It then resets and starts to bring the system back up. While bringing the system back up it checks for 'HELP' in 0, if it is there it goes directly to putting up the deadend alert message that it couldn't get out before reseting the system. Dale