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Subject: 
Re: MOC pirate ships
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.pirates
Date: 
Sat, 10 May 2003 08:38:55 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Frank Filz writes:
stephen rowe wrote:

hello .pirates! i am new to lugnet, and this is my first ever post, but i
have designated myself a .pirate. i have been a lurker for awhile :-( but
finally got involved. :-)

Nice ships, but now that you're not a lurker anymore, you're a pirate
not a .pirate....

(sorry for the geeky Unix reference...)

thank you very much for the compliment, but im sorry, i am not sure what
Unix is.

Frank

thanks
steve



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  Re: MOC pirate ships
 
(...) >>Frank (...) Unix is a computer operating system. It predates Windows, MacOS, etc. The joke here is that any file that starts with a . is a hidden file in Unix. Since you've delurked you're no longer hidden so you should remove the dot : P (...) (21 years ago, 10-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)

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  Re: MOC pirate ships
 
(...) Nice ships, but now that you're not a lurker anymore, you're a pirate not a .pirate.... (sorry for the geeky Unix reference...) Frank (21 years ago, 9-May-03, to lugnet.pirates)

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