RE: Joke 10

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

~ is the 'home' directory on Unix - i.e. cd ~, hence "there's no place like ~"

127.0.0.1 is 'loopback' or 'localhost' and so "there's no place like loopback" 
or "there's no place like localhost" doesn't quite work :)

--phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Bale
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:08 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Joke 10
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Hall, Philip
> > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 2:53 PM
> >
> > I think you mean; there's no place like ~
> 
> There's no place like ... squiggly???
> 
> db
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