lenny@quincy.UUCP (09/23/87)
Recently there has been some discussion on "pcal" (CALENDAR 3.0) that was hidden in /etc/fixes directory. Well I found I even more mysterious oddity! /usr/bin/.!. <-- note this is any executable. Run it you will get a laugh? Now explain why it is here? Why the list of people /usr/installed/.list yet again another hidden file. See what a: $ find / -name .* -print Will do!! -Lenny -- Lenny Tropiano ...seismo!uunet!swlabs!godfre!quincy!lenny -or- American LP Systems, Inc. ...cmcl2!phri!gor!helm!quincy!lenny -or- 1777-18 Veterans Memorial Hwy. ...mtune!quincy!lenny -or Islandia, New York 11722 +1 516-582-5525 ...ihnp4!icus!quincy!lenny
kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (09/25/87)
In article <53@quincy.UUCP> lenny@quincy.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >Recently there has been some discussion on "pcal" (CALENDAR 3.0) that >was hidden in /etc/fixes directory. Well I found I even more mysterious >oddity! > >/usr/bin/.!. <-- note this is any executable. Run it you will get a >laugh? Now explain why it is here? Why the list of people >/usr/installed/.list yet again another hidden file. See what a: > > $ find / -name .* -print > >Will do!! Well, .!. (besides its graphic symbology) shows a list of the original Safari 4 team members. It was hacked in late in the original development cycle, and somehow got past the AT&T censors (if there are any, I don't know anything about AT&T Quality Control). It's been just quietly sitting there since at least release 2.0. .list is data for .!. It's kind of an in joke. I only know about it because one of my very best friends is on the list. I generally change .list because of another in-joke, but you can safely just delete both files. BTW you'll see what a crude hack .!. is from the state it leaves your console in. -- Kevin O'Gorman ( kevin@kosman ) Vital Computer Systems, Oxnard, CA 93035
arens@vaxa.isi.edu (Yigal Arens) (09/28/87)
In article <53@quincy.UUCP> lenny@quincy.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >Recently there has been some discussion on "pcal" (CALENDAR 3.0) that >was hidden in /etc/fixes directory. I don't recall seeing such a discussion. I've checked it out and pcal seems to be an interesting program. Maybe someone can answer the following two questions: 1. Where is, or how does one get, the part(s) that are still missing - e.g. the program for setting one's preferences. Or at least the format and the file where these things should reside. 2. Why is pcal so excruciatingly slow when run outside ua, e.g. with 'windy'? Can anything be done about this? Thanks, Yigal Arens USC/ISI arens@vaxa.isi.edu