THE TELNET SONG ("Control-Uparrow Q.") Words and music by The Great Quux (c) 1984 Guy L. Steele Jr. A function of N. N = 4 is recommended. EVERYBODY-SING ( There is a program called TELNET that gets to another CPU. Control-uparrow is the escape; it's doubled to send it thorugh, and "quit" is control-uparrow Q. A hacker once used TELNET to get to another CPU. He knew he could quit whenever he wanted to: all he had to do was type control-uparrow Q. FOR I = 1 TO N ( Instead the hacker used TELNET to get to another CPU. He knew he could quit whenever he wanted to: all he had to do was type FOR J = 1 TO 2^I ( control-uparrow ) Q. ) The hacker soon grew bored of this, and wanted to get back. He sighed, and started the exponential popping of the stack: FOR I = N DOWNTO 1 ( The hacker flushed the TELNET to the most distant CPU; He couldn't log out until he had killed them all, counting up powers of two: He typed FOR J = 1 TO 2^I ( control-uparrow ) Q. ) The hacker flushed the TELNET to the other CPU; He couldn't log out until he had killed them all, counting up powers of two: He typed control-uparrow Q. SPOKEN ( Whew! ) The hacker's eyes was blood-shot; his fingers, back and blue; He wanted to log out and go home to bed, and sleep for a day or two. He typed L O G O U SPOKEN ( T carriage return. ) The hacker was on a net- work with only twenty CPU's. But if he had TELNET-ed to them all, he would not yet be thorough with typing control-uparrow control-uparrow control-uparrow control-uparrow control-uparrow control-uparrow control-uparrow Q! ) . WITH-CHORDS (TRANSPOSE ( G G G G C C G G C G Em A7 D7 D7 D7 D7 G FOR I = 1 TO N ( G G G G C C G G C G Em A7 D7 D7 D Bm D Bm D Bm ... D7 G ) C G D G C G Em A7 A7 D7 FOR I = N DOWNTO 1 ( G G G G C C G G C G Em A7 D7 D7 D Bm D Bm D Bm ... D7 G ) FOR I = 1 TO 2 ( G G G G C C G G C G Em A7 D7 D7 D7 D7 G ) G G G G C C G G C G Em A7 D7 D7 D Bm D Bm D Bm D Bm D Bm D Bm D7 D7 G )