Re: Yahoo! News Story - Americans Favor Military Courtsin Terror War

Michael Zara wrote:

> By the way, in Mac OS X, the core of which is a Mach kernel and a flavor of
> FreeBSD, if you enter the terminal command "Bill Gates,"  the response is
> "kill Gates? OK?"
>
> Does this hold true in other UNIXen?
>
> mbz

I use FreeBSD since 1.something....
There is no such command.... what happened is a happy coincidence! :)))))

the autocorrect feature of your shell (perhaps tcsh, perhaps bash, ...),
not finding any command "Bill", tries to correct to the nearest match: "kill"!
...and then asks you if "kill Gates" is the command that you wanted....

it is very funny! and happens on any UN*X as long as you use tcsh or bash with
the autocorrect feature enabled.

Miguel Ramos