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From: allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: silly command names
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 22:02:14 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 22:02:14 1985
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Recent discussions in net.college have led me to seek out the old manual
which I seem to have permanently borrowed from my old H.S. for BASIC under
the Honeywell 66/10 Time Sharing System.  In Appendix D of "2000C:  A Guide
To Time-Shared BASIC," an HP publication, this:

	SANCTIFY	This command enables the operator to move a program
			(no longer than 8192 words) or a file (no longer than
			32 records) from the disc to the drum.  The area on the
			disc where it resided is retained.  The entry will
			remain on the drum until it is removed by the operator
			(see below) or KILLED by the user who owns it.  Only
			entries whose access times are critical should be
			sanctified.

	DESECRATE	This command moves a sanctified file from the drum back
			to its original location on the disc, or deletes the
			drum copy of a sanctified program.  (The disc copy of
			the program is retained.)

	NOTE:  If a sanctified *program* cannot be retrieved from a user's
	       library because of a data error on the drum, it may be possible
	       to DESECRATE the program and retrieve the copy from the disc.

Those were the days - typing a password over blackened spots on the paper (or
in full public view on the lone CRT)...  But the school has taken that
definite step into the 80s - a room of full Atari 400s...
-- 
			"When fallout is expected you may hear three
				 long blasts like this in succession."

							Allyn Hardyck
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