[net.micro.pc] JFATALITY

BRACKENRIDGE%USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (12/17/83)

From:  Billy <BRACKENRIDGE@USC-ISIB>

The tall tree holiday edition of their newsletter advises that to avoid
Jfatalities don't drink and mess with your disk drive durring this
holiday season.

I entered the command:

JET A: C:/ECHO

Now this was suppposed to copy the contents of the A: drive into the
subdirectory ECHO. Unfortunately I should have typed:

JET A: C:\ECHO

Henderson's idiot parser interpreted my command as:

JET A: C:/E

which as the more observant of you may have guessed means erase C disk
before copying the files. Of course I hadn't backed up important files
for six weeks.

This afternoon I am recovering from a substantial hangover.
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