> -----Original Message-----
>  On Wed May 21 11:00 , Edward Jaffe sent:
> 
> >Rob Scott wrote:
> >> I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright 
> spark once wrote a program called "IJKEFT01" whose sole 
> purpose in life was to just ATTACH IKJEFT01 *unless* it was 
> the "target" userid in which case it also ATTACHed an extra 
> TCB that randomly generated strange abends at random intervals.
> >>   
> >
> >In school, *someone* wrote a program called "FUN" that simulated the 
> >"command prompt" of the interactive system we used. FUN was a simple 
> >program that waited for some input from the user, wrote an exact 
> >replica of the message that would appear when an 
> unrecognized command 
> >was issued (similar to IKJ56500I COMMAND xxxxx NOT FOUND in 
> TSO/E), and 
> >then re-issued the prompt and looped back to wait for more input. 
> >Watching people's reactions, while FUN was running, was FUN! :-D

Was "someone's" initials E. E. J. ?

    -jc-

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