Re: Fat Fingers on the keyboard

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Years ago on the S/3 a 'C P' would cancel all the spool files on the
system.
They changed it to 'CN P' on a later release.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ericadelong@pmsc.com [SMTP:ericadelong@pmsc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 1998 9:46 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re[2]: your mail 
> 
> 
> This reminds me about an incident at a 36 shop years back. The system
> operator 
> typed "C P <enter>" right after completing dayend for the banks. 
> 
> For those who aren't familliar with s36 shorthand, this stands for
> cancel print.
> Every report was scrubbed, and dayend had to be reprocessed. Loved
> those single 
> character commands! <g>
> 
> Eric A DeLong
> 
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________
> Subject: Re: your mail 
> Author:  <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > at INTERNET
> Date:    8/10/98 10:54 PM
> 
> 
> >> Watch out that you don't fat finger the "S" in SLTCMD and type the
> "D" next 
> >> to the "S" on the keyboard. I did that 9 years ago and typed
> "DLTCMD RTV*" 
> >> instead of "SLTCMD RTV*"! Fortunately, it was my own computer and
> not a
> >> client's.
> >
> >THANK YOU!
> >
> >I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only person in the world to have 
> >done that particular fumble-finger.
> >
> >david
>      
>      
> As nifty as the double-interlock on deletes is, it's all too easy to
> get in 
> the habit of hitting the enter key twice.
>      
> During those late nights and other ultra critical times, I've tried to
> 
> train myself to pause... and READ THE FINE SCREEN before I press that
> 2nd 
> Enter.
>      
> I suspect, however, that the DLTCMD RTV* command would not require a
> 2nd 
> enter... since it doesn't come from a subfile select, but direct from
> the 
> command line... where only people who know what they're doing lurk.
>      
>      
> --Paul E Mussleman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
>      
> 
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