Well, I might be a bit late on this thread, but my favourite use of
yes was back in 95 or 96 when Windows 95 came out, and a friend was
talking about how it never crashed and he showed me his nifty ZBserver
(or some such) which was a 16bit web server.

$ yes | tr '\012' ' ' | telnet his.machine.edu 80

His cursor seemed to stop moving, and finally his machine managed to
reboot.

On 930103889 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
"Michael G. Schabert" wrote:
>
>[This is general NetBSD, & not alpha specific]
>
>Hi guys,
>As I was doing a make build, I happened to watch as it was doing stuff in
>/usr/src/usr.bin...& was curious when I saw this thing called "yes". So I
>read the manpage. When I read it, I thought to myself "now that seems
>really stupid. Why would anyone want to do that?" So, being the
>sometimes-adventurous sort, I went ahead and typed "yes".
>
>That brings me full circle to my original thought...that seems awfully
>stupid. Why would anyone want to do that?
>
>It took me forever to get my ctrl-c command through, what with the
>incessant scrolling & all. Is there actually an application for such a
>command, or did I miss something?
>
>Mike
>Bikers don't *DO* taglines.
>

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