Amazing what a little winter home directory cleaning turns up. I sat down
to plot out the rest of MCP, and look at all the stuff I keep finding.
This is *very* old, and was originally planned to be much longer. I
didn't write the actual plot, I only did the Unix tech work. Hopefully,
this will convince my co-writer to start writing it again.
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Ranma 1/2 -- E-mail Follies!
Ranma grumpily watched Akane merrily typing away on her
workstation across the computer lab classroom from him. *Oh man*, he
mumbled under his breath, *it just figures that SHE'd be good at this
computer junk.* His fierce stare turned to a look of fear as Akane
suddenly turned her head and caught him glaring at her. For a moment her
aura started to flare, then an impish look appeared on her face and she
turned back to her computer. Her fingers danced across across the
keyboard with no trace of her usual cluminess. A moment later, Ranma's
workstation beeped, and, as he turned his head to look at the monitor, a
message appeared on his screen.
lab1~>
Message from atendo@lab1 on ttyp3 at 12:26 ...
Ranma stared confusedly at the message and hesitantly turned to
look at Akane. When he looked back he saw:
lab1~>
Message from atendo@lab1 on ttyp3 at 12:26 ...
Check your e-mail, hentai.
EOF
"Damn!", Ranma said aloud without thinking.
A moment later, a childish voice inquired "Saotome-san, did you
just say a BAD word?"
A drop of sweat appeared by Ranma's head as he stared up at
Hinako-sensei who was standing in front of his workstation, holding a five
yen coin with a gleeful look on her face. "Ah, uh, that is..." Ranma
stuttered in fear, "uhh, I said ham, that's it, HAM!" Hinako-sensei's
face looked suspicious but then she sighed and resumed pacing the
classroom. As the fear left Ranma's face he settled back in his chair
with a sigh of relief. *For once, knowing P-chan came in handy*. A
moment later, his computer beeped at him again.
Message from atendo@lab1 on ttyp3 at 12:30 ...
You do know how, right?
EOF
Ranma started to snarl another curse and then instantly stopped,
open mouthed, as he felt a presence beside him.
"Saotome-san, I don't think you read your 'Beginning E-mail.
homework last night, did you?" a happy voice announced an instant before
Ranma felt all the strength being drained out of him. A familiar shapely
form walked away smiling as he slid to the floor and lay there staring at
the ceiling. *I HATE school* he thought miserably.
Finally, after ten long minutes, Ranma was able to regain his
chair although he still felt like the classroom was slowly rotating around
him. He searched the keyboard for the mail key. It wasn't there. He hit
enter.
lab1~>
Ranma wasn't stupid, he had some idea how to do this. So he typed
in mail.
lab1~>mail
Mail version 5.5 6/1/90. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/rsaotome": 1 message 1 new
N 1 atendo@furinken.neri Wed Apr 3 12:22 13/511 "You'll never figure t"
&
Ranma stared at the screen. After a minute of this, a woman's
hand reached past his and tapped the 1 key. He looked up into
Hinako-sensei's face fearfully but she just smiled at him and walked away.
His errant finger hit the enter key reflexively and words started
scrolling down the screen. Ranma stared for a minute before he realized
it was a message. To him. From Akane!?
& 1
Message 1:
>From atendo@furinken.nerima.tokyo.jp Wed Apr 3 12:22:06 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:22:06 +1100
From: Akane Tendo <atendo@furinken.nerima.tokyo.jp>
To: Ranma Saotome <rsaotome@furinken.nerima.tokyo.jp>
Subject: You'll never figure this out.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Ranma no baka.
&
Ranma grinned to himself, then realized he had no idea what to do
next. He read through all the messages on his screen again, and saw
something useful. Type ? for help. He tracked down the ? key, and hit
it. He waited a few minutes, then remembered then next part. He hit
enter. The same message he just read popped up again. He spent the next
ten minutes hitting it and watching the same message scroll by. Finally,
he decided to look more closely.
& /
Message 1:
>From atendo@furinken.nerima.tokyo.jp Wed Apr 3 12:22:06 1996
...
Akane sat down next to him. "Having problems? Oh, you read my
e-mail already. Maybe I was wrong about you." Ranma ignored her and
stared at the key again. There were TWO characters on it. He kept
getting the / one instead of the ?. "Oh, here. Let me help." Akane
reached over and hit the shift key, then ?. Ranma mumbled something about
thanks, then hit enter. This time he got a full screen help message.
Hinako called out to the class. "Ok, it's almost one o'clock.
Time to go back to the classroom for your next teacher." Ranma turned to
Akane with a look of pleading in his eyes.
"Oh, all right." She pointed to a line in the help text. "Q.
For quit." Ranma pressed q, then enter.
& q
Saved 1 message in mbox.
lab1~>
"Now logout." Ranma typed in logout, and was rewarded by seeing
the screen clear and 'login:' appear.
"That's it?"
"Yes... but you didn't send me any mail yet."
Ranma sighed and walked out of the computer lab. He really hated
losing.