• PoolloverNathan@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      It’s a pun on PC LOAD LETTER, which is an old error message roughly meaning “load letter paper into the paper cartridge”. The other person thought you replied to the other² person.

    • My Password Is 1234@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      cat is the program that reads the contents of specific file

      litter is the file

      > means forward the output of the program to the file

      /dev/lp0 is Line Printer 0 so just printer