[TUHS] made up errno contest, at an early USENIX

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Hi Warren.

Really cool.

Can you grep for EMRED?  (Doesn't match ENO).

Thanks!

Arnold

Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:19:58PM +0300, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> > This is really gonna stretch the memories. (I may have even asked about
> > it on this list before.)
> > At one of the earlier USENIX conferences that I attended, maybe in
> > Atlanta, there was a contest to make up humorous new errno values.
>
> I'm back from a trip to Cania Gorge in Queensland Australia where there is
> next to no phone reception.
>
> When I scanned in the old AUUG newsletters, I told the photocopier to also
> do OCR. This means that I can do this to the scanned files:
>
> for i in *.pdf
> do j=`echo $i | sed 's/pdf/txt/'`
>    echo $j
>    pdftotext $i
>    grep ENO $j
>    rm $j
> done
>
> Yet another reason why Unix is so much better :-) Here are the results
> which will help Arnold out with his question.
>
> Cheers, Warren
>
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/AUUGN/
>
> ...