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Article #704Re: close shaves
From: cpho... Chris Phoenix
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 08:31
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1990 08:31
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Yet another formatting-the-system story. This one happened to a friend of my mother's. (No, not a friend-of-a-friend...) I have no idea which system it was, or which company, but it's a good story anyway. She had just started her job, and needed to create some space for herself on whatever mainframe they were using. The instructions said to type "FORMAT <your-username>" to get a nice clean chunk of disk space. Well, she typed F O R M A T ... and hit <return> by mistake. Without any special privileges, following the instructions with only one typo, she formatted THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. Luckily, they had backups... -- Chris Phoenix | A harp is a nude piano. cpho...@csli.Stanford.EDU | "More input! More input!" Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. Disclaimer: I want a kinder, gentler net with a thousand pints of lite.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!shelby!csli!cphoenix From: cpho...@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: close shaves Message-ID: <11630@csli.Stanford.EDU> Date: 6 Jan 90 08:31:00 GMT References: <1990Jan5.034722.13185@cs.rochester.edu> <1990Jan5.035046.13278@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: cpho...@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Phoenix) Reply-To: cpho...@csli.stanford.edu (Chris Phoenix) Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 17 Posted: Sat Jan 6 09:31:00 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit