Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!allynh From: allynh@ucbvax.ARPA (Allyn Hardyck) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: silly command names Message-ID: <3999@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 22:02:14 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3999 Posted: Wed Jan 2 22:02:14 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 04:51:52 EST Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 33 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 ..!ucbvax!allynh allynh@ucbvax.ARPA