[talk] Korn Shell Anecdote

[Brian Reynolds]

Last night's Shell Fu meeting was a lot of fun.

It wasn't until I was out of the bar that I remembered an amusing Korn
shell story from years ago.  It involves a Microsoft presenter running
into reality at a Usenix LISA NT conference in Seattle.  I originally
thought I saw it on rec.humor.funny, but it turns out that the best
version of it that I could find is in the freebsd-chat archives at:

<https://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=156953+0+archive/1998/freebsd-chat/19980823.freebsd-chat>

Apparently this has been confirmed be people who were there, and a
much shortened version even appears in the David Korn page at
wikipedia.  So it must be true.

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