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Re: A batch programming contest for you

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From: Todd J Derr
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 16:11
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In article <1992Aug18.213600.27969@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes:
>
>Don't know about useful, but interesting... Well, how about the self
>printing batch program that I posted to alt.hackers some time ago:
>
>SELFPRNT.BAT:
>	Bad command or file name
>
>And yet another teaser: The above batch file doesn't self print
>on 4DOS! 

well, it doesn't self-print with COMMAND.COM either...  when you "List"
it:

C:>type selfprnt.bat
Bad command or file name
Bad command or file name
...

and when you execute it:

C:>selfprnt

C:>Bad command or file name
Bad command or file name

C:>Bad command or file name
Bad commmand or file name

close...  but you are supposed to get *The Same* output if you "List" it
or Execute it- and you don't.


later,

todd.

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From: infidel+@pitt.edu (Todd J Derr)
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Subject: Re: A batch programming contest for you
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