I typed `print babe.gif' and it didn't work! Why??

The next time the author checked his mail, he would see it listed in

his mailbox as:

% mail

"/usr/spool/mail/brendan": 1 messages 1 new 1 unread

U 1 joeuser@foo.widene Tue May 5 20:36 29/956 print job's stuck

?

which gives information on the sender of the email, when it was sent,

and the subject of the message. He would probably use the

reply command of Unix mail to send this response:

? r

To: joeuser@@foo.widener.edu

Subject: Re: print job's stuck

You shouldn't print binary files like GIFs to a printer!

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