Pigle.ask
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Pigle.ask is the name of a hacking text file created in the early 1990s on a VAX/VMS system, known for its cryptic yet detailed error messages. At the time it was created, it was known to make anyone familiar with a DEC VAX system begin laughing loudly. These days it looks like a bunch of gobbeldygook that inspires little laughter.
It played a role in the mid 1990s as a prank, and shows up from time to time on the Internet:
Running...
^The punning on your pigle is 0 degrees 0 minutes 0 seconds
Running...
^The punning on your pigle is 12 degrees 22 minutes 47 seconds
Running...
^The punning on your pigle is 52 degrees 1 minutes 30 seconds
Final Run...
^The punt against random access total delivery mode:
^
^Read: Organize: Inflate: Maximum North: Fetters: Gap: Final: Exit map: Pass:
|-----|---------|--------|--------------|--------|----|------|---------|-----|
| 01 | read-on | FILTHY | famished, am | (@) | ,1 | 9 |onjugatab| 127 |
| -08 | rent-in | EXIT | eye, copper. | (@) | ,4 | F |espisable| 00F |
| 19 | wake-at | EARNED | azimuths, is |AMICABLE| ,! | @ |lagellati| 2AD |
| 112 | pile-it | TAKEN | sorter, feet |AMICABLE| ,0 | . |gumentati| 401 |
|IIIII|IIIIIIIII|GLOWING |IIIIIIIIIIIIII|AMICIIII|IIII|II$@II|%*acli%II|IIIII|
| -92 | ford-as | SHOWN | latitude, am | (@) | ,9 | 2 |accolades| 01B |
% Core Grade Input is allocated.
| |E-RROR RE|ADING IN|PUT <COLD><MIL|K><AUTHO|RITY|><><00|010010>
<01 001001>
% Core Grade Input is locked-up.
<00 011000>
<10 010101>
<00 010001>
% Damage in Core Grade Input.
% Core Grade Input is restored.
<01 010101>
<11 110000><?>
--Warning--
PIGLE will not translate, round, truncate, collate, or compile the CHARACTER:
/isB0000SVO1-IMJ-ARGUE-T![*24AC7]-ENDOFWORD-nak/
--Restructure recommended:--
Relay '![*24AC7]' into UNDELETE MODE.
Acquire full 'ASK' status.
Ground complete module in MANDATORY packet.
ENDOFWORD needs to 'refer' to /ENDOFWORD/, not /ENDOFWORLD/.
Check REAL WORKING STATUS of 'isnak'. This variable accounted as:
00100101 00100011 01001001 10100001 00000111 11111101 01001001 00000000.
--Checking origination status--
Sorry, PIGLE finds error privilege 00004 incompatible with
your account JSTOVEY which is restricted to an error
privilege of 00003. You are now listed as BREAK-IN, and
proper persons have been notified. Your account JSTOVEY
is temporarily frozen from access. Please see:
Hiram Matheringston
Computer Operator
to restore your account. You have been a bad boy, Joseph.
[edit] External link
A record of the 1995 stunt: http://cctr.umkc.edu/ftp/anon_ftp/LIST_ARCHIVES/ASSISTANT/ASSISTANT.1995-07
