Show ContentPoolloverNathan@programming.devEnglish2·2 years agoIt’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.
Show ContentMy Password Is 1234@lemmy.world1·2 years agocat 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
PC LOAD LITTER
cat litter > /dev/lp0
What thefuck does that mean?
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.cat
is the program that reads the contents of specific filelitter
is the file>
means forward the output of the program to the file/dev/lp0
is Line Printer 0 so just printer