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From: bdh@nospam.deus.com (William de Haan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 02:43:54 GMT
Organization: Deus Ex Machina, Ltd.
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On 5 Mar 1997 13:44:33 GMT, Roberto Alsina wrote:
>Dangers of the time: Use TECO over a phone line whitout error
>correction, with noise *on the input*. Suddenly your document is renamed
>to $#@!$hhty5$ and saved in the /jy$^/kuty$#@ directory (which TECO had
>just created :-)
Been there. Done that. Had the stitches pulled. I remember having to
pick up an acoustic coupler and whistle at 110 baud to re-establish the
carrier so I could reconnect to the host and undo the damage TECO had
visited on it. :-)
>Go to sunsite! There is one.
Really? I'll have to take another look. Thanks.
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