Jim Henderson wrote:
> never heard me raise my voice for any reason and were quite surprised.

I was working in one cubicle farm a long time ago, back when CP/M was the 
rage. Every time you got a compilation error in your code, the compiler 
would print the error and bomb up without cleaning up, leaving a bunch of 
*.SCR scratch files around.

One day, after this, on the "reference" machine, after much programming, I 
typed "DEL *.SRC" instead of "DEL *.SCR".  Since it took about 1.5 seconds 
instead of the usual quarter second, I looked again at the command line 
again and very quietly said "Oh, shit."  About five people stuck their heads 
up over the partitions asking what's wrong, since nobody ever cursed.

Fortunately, we had UNERASE already installed, and it took noticeably longer 
to delete all the files, so I knew right away I'd done it. After that, we 
changed the pascal source files to *.PAS :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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