woerz@iaoobelix (12/03/87)
> /***** iaoobelix:comp.unix.wiz / oberon!blarson / 5:40 pm Nov 28, 1987*/ > In article <7995@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes: > >(The VMS interface is not always so friendly to novices: name the file > >"junk" instead of "junk.txt", and a novice may never figure out how to > >read it. As for expert interfaces, rename the expert's .emacs file to > >sav.emacs and watch him/her try to recover.) > > I'm no VMS expert and I know a way to recover. Use a gun to put a few > bullets in the aproprate disk drive. (When it is replaced and the > backups restored, my .emacs reappears. :-) And if you're out of luck, a backup has been done between the time you changed your .emacs file and the shooting of the disk and you will get your changed file. :-( > -- > Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu > Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson blarson@skat.usc.edu > Prime mailing list (requests): info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu > /* ---------- */ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieter Woerz Fraunhofer Institut fuer Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation Abt. 453 Holzgartenstrasse 17 D-7000 Stuttgart 1 W-Germany BITNET: iaoobel.uucp!woerz@unido.bitnet UUCP: ...{uunet!unido, pyramid}!iaoobel!woerz