Printer cat (treebrary.pone.social)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/cat@lemmy.world
 
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    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    cat 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

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