• PoolloverNathan@programming.devEnglish
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        2 years ago

        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.

      • My Password Is 1234@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        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