Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!ames!zodiac!joyce!sri-unix!garth!smryan
From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <1312@garth.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 01:36:04 GMT
References: <5856@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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>she replied: "Well there were some crinkled ends on this tape so
>I did what I've seen done in the movies. I just reeled off a few
>feet and then cut the tape at that point."
>
>After I stopped laughing I told her what she had done.

Perhaps, I missed the joke, but I did that all the time.

Of course I was careful to leave a leader before the load point.