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Fire up the subspace ansible and create a holodeck room for us to talk about it. You can't name the holodeck program "CON", "LPT1", "PRN", or "AUX", though, bec
by acheron 3y ago
Fire up the subspace ansible and create a holodeck room for us to talk about it. You can't name the holodeck program "CON", "LPT1", "PRN", or "AUX", though, because those are MS-DOS device names. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37076523 )
- myself248 3y agoTo this day, I use COPY CON FILENAME.TXT to make a quick-n-dirty note of something without leaving the terminal.
- kstrauser 3y agoI use `cat > foo.txt` all the time for the same reason.
- Arrath 3y agoThere's an idea for another holodeck mishap episode right there. The ship's replicators start spitting out PacMan ghosts which quickly overrun the passageways ala Tribbles, in the end it turns out Ensign Crusher attempted to pipe his holodeck game to PRN and the Ship's computer mistook that as a command to begin (3d) printing.