This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
assignment hack
Article: 7841 of alt.hackers From: etlpml@etlxd30.ericsson.se (Paul Mitchell (XD/DZ)) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: assignment hack Date: 19 May 1995 12:55:02 GMT Organization: Ericsson Lines: 19 Approved: Yes Message-ID: 3pi4f7$1bn@erinews.ericsson.se NNTP-Posting-Host: etlxd12f.ericsson.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Status: RO
obhack: Had to write a program for class that wrote nocely formatted text to a file however being fortran I couldnt in the time allowed get the format statements right. The idea was the lecturer would inspect the text file created and check it contained the formatted text required to pass the assignment. He had told us that the file should be called a particular name so he could find it to check. The hack was to pipe the output to another file but create the file required in a nice text editor where it is a lot easier to format text than by using a fortran program! Lecturer checks the manually created file thinking its been created by my program, sees the nicely formatted text and gives me an A. cheers mitch.... -- These are not the opinions/ideas of Ericssons PLC ------------------------------------------------- Paul Mitchell, Ericssons Telecommunications Process Co-ordinator, Burgess Hill, W. Sussex, UK