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From: cjdb@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Lethal Command
Message-ID: <1876@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 23:58:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1876
Posted: Mon Jun  1 23:58:33 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 04:21:22 EDT
References: <3163@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Organization: The University of Chicago
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In article <3163@well.UUCP> nortond@well.UUCP (Daniel A. Norton) writes:
>[...]
>An MS-DOS system can be brought to a grinding
>halt with a single command:
>
>		echo >"="
>
>Yes, that's all that it takes.  The system barely has time to echo back
>the new line sequence before everything is frozen.


Building on your pioneering discovery I have discovered it takes even
less: >" "

That stops my AT running PC-DOS 3.2 cold. Now, what's the Mac
equivalent, I wonder.



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