[tophat9000]

You know in the movie "Independence Day" there was always the question how they could come up with a computer virus that would interface with and unknown alien operating system.

I always thought the answer was that Unix was the aliens operating system and had been revered engineer from the captured alien ship in the late fifty's.

I mean come on you don't think "grep" is a human command do you?

[tortoise]

You know in the movie "Independence Day" there was always the question how they could come up with a computer virus that would interface with and unknown alien operating system.

That and the fact that they were using an Apple computer, which won't even interface with an ordinary human PC, nevermind alien technology...

:-)

[Don Joe]

"I mean come on you don't think 'grep' is a human command do you?"

Well, not in the apparently-singular form, but append an "s" and it's inevitable after a beer.