From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'watch out for cheque forging internet kooks henny youngman
didn't and now only 91 years later he is dead'"
<cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: bash and make are trapped in an endless loop
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANOsBmBUfkHZc0l00000216@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SERRANOf5cyGK71EKic00000214@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 27 June 2005 16:04
> ----Original Message----
>> From: Ross Boulet
>> Sent: 27 June 2005 15:54
>
>>> ----Original Message----
>>>> From: Christian Matuszewski
>>>> Sent: 27 June 2005 12:42
>
>>>> When i then kill make with Ctrl-C and enter the asterisk in the command
>>>> line, I have the same behaviour, i. e. executing '*' will give the same
>>>> messages and ends in an endless loop.
>>>
>>> WDDTT!
>>>
>> Maybe it's just Monday and I'm brain dead, but I couldn't
>> find WDDTT in the OLOCA or elsewhere. Could someone please enlighten me?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
> http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html
>
It may be apocryphal, but I've seen the origin of the joke attributed to
Henny Youngman before.
http://www.funny2.com/henny.htm
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-27 15:15 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <SERRANOyxwZ71BpL76k00000205@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
2005-06-27 15:04 ` Ross Boulet
2005-06-27 15:15 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-28 15:51 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2005-06-29 23:21 ` zzapper
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