> At Uni, it was as much a rite of passage as accidentally sending the binary
> you'd compiled to the printer instead of the Pascal source file.
To the extent that we wrote a print filter that would
notice the MS-DOS or UNIX executable header and hex
dump the first few lines, before a gentle reminder
that use of printers to run programs breached the
AUP.
This was done not so much to save line printer
paper (we had page quotas), but to stop people
coming to us sysadmins and saying:
luser: The printers never work for me, it
says "PostScript error" on the LCD
and I don't get any output. Are
you guys incompetent or what -- can't
you even write a text-to-PS filter!
sysadm: You did send it text?
luser: Yeah
sysadm: What did you type?
luser: PRINT FRED.EXE
sysadm resists overwhelming urge to apply four-by-clue
to luser. Considers what BOFH would do...
Cheers,
Glen
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