Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!quiche!opus!peterd From: peterd@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Workspace Exiting Unexpectedly Summary: Depends upon phase of the moon Message-ID: <2370@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 11 Oct 90 06:58:36 GMT References: <90282.200109SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <1990Oct10.234917.707@svc.portal.com> Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 43 In article <1990Oct10.234917.707@svc.portal.com>, moose@svc.portal.com writes: > In article <90282.200109SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes: > >By accident I typed in three forward slashes in the Workspace > >Name Expansion window and I got logged out! I was experimenting > >afterwards and it seems you can get yourself logged out even > >by typing two slashes in a row. Is this an undocumented feature? > > Thank you for this tidbit. Now I know how to log off the cube without getting > that irritating message box. Unfortunately, this feature has been removed in > system 2.0. Bummer. Well, we debated quite a bit on whether this was a bug or a feature, but after some testing it appears that it is not 100 percent reliable - if you hit the three slashs, then the key fast enough, you actually hang the Workspace Manager (I didn't do this, but I showed this to a person who is I think the fastest touch-typist I know and he hung it with 100 percent reliability.) the other apps keep going, so you can go into a Shell and kill the Workspace Manager, this clears things up and you can log in again. Thus I conclude that it is a bug, not a feature. Pity, I like the idea. Of course, I don't type that fast, it doesn't appear to be leaving a core file anywhere, and the machine emits no smoke, so until told otherwise, and until 2.0 arrives, I'm using it! - peterd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +-------+ Peter Deutsch McGill University | u # u | peterd@cs.mcgill.ca School of Computer Science |/\/\/\/| | a a | This misinformation cheerfully brought to you \ a / by someone that just doesn't take it \___/ all too seriously. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------