uis@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 1 year agoPrinter cattreebrary.pone.socialimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
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minus-squarePoolloverNathan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIt’s a pun on PC LOAD LETTER, which is an old error message roughly meaning “load letter paper into the paper cartridge”. The other person thought you replied to the other² person.
minus-squareMy Password Is 1234@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agocat is the program that reads the contents of specific file litter is the file > means forward the output of the program to the file /dev/lp0 is Line Printer 0 so just printer
PC LOAD LITTERcat litter > /dev/lp0What thefuck does that mean?
It’s a pun on
PC LOAD LETTER, which is an old error message roughly meaning “load letter paper into the paper cartridge”. The other person thought you replied to the other² person.catis the program that reads the contents of specific filelitteris the file>means forward the output of the program to the file/dev/lp0is Line Printer 0 so just printer