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Reply To: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 25 May 1999 17:52:00 +0000299_- Reminds me of a joke we wrote one afternoon on an Apple ][ in basic to spoof the boss into thinking the Apple ][ computer was logged on. It gave nothing more that a colon (:) prompt and some stupid remarks when some simple commands were entered. Emulated a LISTF/LISTF,1/LISTF,2 pretty good. [...]51_25May199917:52: [log in to unmask] |
Date: | Mon, 24 May 1999 12:21:56 -0600 |
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Stan wrote:
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When I'm testing someone's code, and their program displays "press
any key to continue", I'll sometimes make a show of pressing the
<shift> key, just for fun. :)
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Once in school we were lectured on the virtues of "idiot proofing" our data
entry routines. (I'm sure it was stated in a more politically correct manor,
but I don't recall the PC version).
After making some changes & feeling quite proud of myself, I asked on of the
teacher's assistants to "try and crash" my program.
At the first prompt entered ":EOF:" and hit return ...Needless to say I haven't
quite so cocky ever since...:-)
If you've never seen this behavior before I'd recommend saving whatever you're
doing BEFORE giving it a try!
Rat
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