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In article <DAVEG.90S...@near.cs.caltech.edu>
da...@near.cs.caltech.edu (Dave Gillespie) writes:

| How many times have we all warned beginning programmers to cross their
| t's and dot their i's:  "Store through an uninitialized pointer, and
| the computer could do anything---it could even run amok and delete all
| your files!"
| 
| Okay, folks:  Have you ever had a bug in an innocent little program
| that really did delete all your files?  Reformat the hard disk?  Send
| rude mail to your mother?  (Well, probably not that.)

I posted this about a year ago.....

The first internal revision of the Data General 32-bit AOS/VS PL/1
compiler had a bug where it would sometimes delete your source file.
Options under AOS/VS are VMS-ish, ie:

	COMMAND/OPTION1/OPTION2=VALUE ARGUMENT1 ARGUMENT2 ARGUMENT3/OPTION4

Also, the equalivant option to UNIX's ./ for specifing a file in the
current direction was '=' in front of the filename and you tended to
use it more, since normal files had path expansion done on them (not
just executables like in UNIX).  Anyay, to create a listing file in
the current directory, you would do:

	PL1/L==FILE.LS FILE.PL1

If you mistyped it as:

	PL1/L===FILE.LS FILE.PL1

it would delete your source.  The networking folks were none too
amused by this behavior when they accidently typed it.
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