Cute. This looks like something Tom would have thrown up at the start of a meeting as a filler.<div><br></div><div>For those of you who are curious as to what it looks like there are quite a few youtube videos. Try searching for "Steam locomotive - linux shell" seems to be pretty good showing the man page and examples of the various options.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I remember someone once replaced the finger command with ascii art of a finger moving up and down with lots of bells to attract attention to your terminal. Yes this was in the timesharing days.</div>
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<br></div><div>My favorite program to start if someone left their Xterm unlocked was Xroach and wait for them to move a window and expose a bug. heh heh.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:06 PM, James McDuffie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcduffie@pitfall.org" target="_blank">mcduffie@pitfall.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you manage a *nix system, this "application" should be installed on<br>
all of them used for interactive work:<br>
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sl is a joke software or classic UNIX game. It is a steam locomotive<br>
runs across your screen if you type "sl" (Steam Locomotive) instead of<br>
"ls" by mistake.<br>
<a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html" target="_blank">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/displays-animations-when-accidentally-you-type-sl-instead-of-ls.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toyoda/index_e.html" target="_blank">http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toyoda/index_e.html</a><br>
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