newbie needs help with GUI

[Cliff Wells]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:28, achrist at easystreet.com wrote:
>   The messages might go to a secret place, IDK.
> I can imagine that when this computer reaches its final reward, 
> the recycler will smash some component deep in the guts of this
> machine and all of that previously unseen print output will splill
> out all over the floor.

That's just silly.  Everyone knows computers recycle unused characters
for later use.  Unix often stores them in /dev/null which is why so many
scripts send unwanted characters there.  Windows, of course, leaks
characters, which is why all MS applications ship with something called
a "font pack" which is really just extra characters so it doesn't run
out.

Cliff

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