Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ReadKey like Function in C
Message-ID: <5798@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 21 Aug 89 02:22:47 GMT
References: <148@trigon.UUCP> <225800206@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <19095@mimsy.UUCP> <13653@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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Warning... malicious MS-DOS reminiscence ahead.

In article <13653@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
> 	format
> 	formatting disk C: -- press any key to continue

I got bit by that too, but in my case it was on an early version of DOS,
which provided the wonderfully malicious message:

	Insert a floppy in drive C: and hit RETURN.

Ah yes...
-- 
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