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Re: CURSES package for Atari ST

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From: Natuerlich!
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 1988 17:32
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In article <457@nikhefh.hep.nl> u14@nikhefh.hep.nl (Daan Josephus Jitta) writes:
>In article xx karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>>In article xx jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes:
>>>I have used the CURSES package extensively on the VAX, and the UNIX.
>>
>>What do you mean, "on the VAX and the UNIX"???  Everyone knows that "VAX" and
>>"UNIX" are synonymous!  Just ask the folks at Berkeley!
>>
>>Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
>
>Sorry to disturb your dreams, but DEC has two operating systems for
>their VAXes:  UNIX and VMS. And there are a lot of machines not coming
>from DEC running UNIX... UNIX and VAX are not *really* synonomous!
>
>Daan Josephus Jitta.
A public message to Karl W. Z. Heuer : "Never post anything slightly 
humorous to a newsgroup, people will just not understand."
Except of course if you liberally apply ^*$% ':-)'s all over your 
your piece therefore degrading it's artistic value to NIL.

And for people who didn't get it this time either..

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From: wallman-george@CS.YALE.EDU (Natuerlich!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: CURSES package for Atari ST
Message-ID: <28188@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 17:32:41 GMT
References: <711@leah.Albany.Edu> <3640@haddock.ISC.COM> <457@nikhefh.hep.nl>
Sender: root@yale.UUCP
Reply-To: wallman-george@CS.YALE.EDU (Natuerlich!)
Organization: Natuerlich!'s Software Vault #5 -- Location Yale
Lines: 38
Keywords: VAX UNIX VMS
Summary: No humor please