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From: sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP (SYG)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Summary: PDP-10: K/D ooops
Message-ID: <1259@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 14:23:41 GMT
References: <1582@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1583@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: sukenick@ccnysci.UUCP (SYG)
Organization: City College Of New York
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>[pdp-10]

The science division in CCNY had a  PDP-10 (`Dec System 10', that is :-) )
for general use.  One problem was that people were complaining that they
were logging in and all their files were gone!  The problem was simple:
what happened when they logged out previously.
To logout, the command is KILL or  K and an option.
K/I  would log you out after querying you about what to do with
each of your files.  K/F  would happily log you out fast and keep
all your files.  K/D would happily log you out and delete all your
files......the `D' key is right next to the `F' key.....

(Yipes! ^C ^C ^C ^C ^C why doesnt ^C work when you need it ???? :-) )
(This nice option was eventually disabled:-))