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A Epilogue Enlightenment Through Unix From: Michael Travers mt@media-lab.media.mit.edu Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 00:47:28 -0500 Subject: Enlightenment through Unix To: UNIX-HATERS Unix teaches us about the transitory nature of all things, thus ridding us of samsaric attachments and hastening enlightenment. For instance, while trying to make sense of an X initialization script someone had given me, I came across a line that looked like an ordinary Unix shell command with the term “exec” prefaced to it. Curious as to what exec might do, I typed “exec ls” to a shell window. It listed a directory, then proceeded to kill the shell and every other window I had, leaving the screen almost totally black with a tiny white inactive cursor hanging at the bottom to remind me that nothing is absolute and all things partake of their opposite. In the past I might have gotten upset or angry at such an occurrence. That was before I found enlightenment through Unix. Now, I no longer have attachments to my processes. Both processes and the disapperance of pro- cesses are illusory. The world is Unix, Unix is the world, laboring ceaslessly for the salvation of all sentient beings.