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Subject: JFATALITY
Message-ID: <14681@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Dec-83 20:18:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 16 20:18:00 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Dec-83 01:50:08 EST
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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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