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In article <56...@orca.wv.tek.com> and...@frip.wv.tek.com writes:
=>The result was that some H-11 executables went out with embedded
=>Jehovah's Witnesses literature.  We found out when someone
=>inadvertantly "TYPE"d an executable.

I used to would for a company called Terminal Systems, which, con-
sidering its eventual status, was aptly named.  My boss, Bob Dumshit
(not his real name, but close enough), was one of those people who
*think* they know about computers.

One day, he called me into the lab to help with a problem he and the
other programmer (who should have known better) were having with the
PAGE utility I had written (designed to show files one page at a time;
something most programmers can write with their eyes closed).  They 
were trying to track down a bug in the other programmer's code and 
were using PAGE to see what assembly code the compiler had generated.
The problem was, PAGE kept throwing garbage on the screen, making rude
noises (beeps) and exiting.  Bob Dumshit wanted me to fix it.

First, I wanted to see this crash in action, so I sat down, did a dir-
ectory, and looked for something to PAGE through.  I saw nothing.

"Where are the ASM files?" I asked.

"ASM files?" they responded.  "What ASM files?"

I was beginning to see the light.  "Show me what you did," I said.
So Bob came over and typed "PAGE TSEDIT.COM" on the keyboard.  He was
trying to type out the executable!!!  So I showed them how to tell the
compiler to generate the ASM files, and then I showed them what they
(the files) looked like and how to PAGE through them.

Then, with this fiasco behind me, I went back to my office and spent
two days producing new releases of *all* of the software I had written
since starting there.  At the start of each program (including the ones
written in C, which was a bear to do) I put:

	JMP	BEGIN
	DB	CR,"Nosey!",BEL,EOF

which, when TYPEd or PAGEd, would print "Nosey!", beep, and stop.

				-Garison-