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Article #17Re: Self-replicating Code
From: Michael Barnett
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 00:30
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 00:30
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ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu (Eli Brandt) writes: >In article <joe.719606069@morton> joe@morton.rain.com (Joe Moss) writes: [...] >>-r-xr-xr-x 7 bin bin 374 Jun 15 21:55 /bin/true >Hah! My /bin/true is longer than your /bin/true: >-rwxr-xr-x 2 root 490 Jan 13 1991 /bin/true* Ho, so you guys think you have it wrapped up! Check out the size of /bin/true on an Encore Multimax running Umax V: -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 764 Nov 10 1991 /bin/true* It has both the Encore and AT&T copyright messages, each verbose and full of their own self-importance, and not even a single line of code. -- ======================================================================= Michael Barnett - System Administrator, Computer Centre, +61 3 660-2934 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Internet: mikeb@rmit.edu.au
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