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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: BSD demon?
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 13:35:20 GMT
Message-ID: <CC432x.KEJ@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <CBxK5G.3KB@candle.uucp> <3887@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> <CBzDyp.82@cyb.fred.com>
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In article <CBzDyp.82@cyb.fred.com> loodvrij@cyb.fred.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) writes:
> Ah, but which daemon is he supposed to be?  Couldn't be sendmail - sendmail's
> big and ugly, and he's small and cute.  How about update?

I figure it's gotta be the line printer demon. Not daemon, demon. That's the
fella with the weird sense of humor that causes paper jams and broken ribbons
and that annoying column of text that's a couple mm above the rest of the line.
I'm afraid to switch to laser printers. I hate to think what he could do with
a bunch of nice sticky toner...
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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