Re: Fat Fingers on the keyboard -- MIDRANGE-L

Some things will never change! Let me share a recent story ( Blair, this is 
yours
! ).

During a demo of ViaVoice, the "presenter" was showing how it could be used to
control a DOS session, when from the midst of the room, a voice shouted 'FORMAT
C: ENTER YES'.

Guess what happened!!!

Would ViaVoice recognise PWRDWNSYS??

By the way, ViaVoice is an excellent product - this note was generated using it.

Paul Tuohy

Neil Palmer wrote:

> 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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