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From: McAllister@DOCKMASTER.ARPA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Screwed by the host
Message-ID: <880625170821.243421@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Date: 25 Jun 88 17:08:00 GMT
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Re:Screwed by the host 06/24/88 1323 edt fri info-apple
   Anonymous writes:
   >Don't accept CyberCrud as a necessary evil -- fight it!  Beat on your
   >system administrator when the system screws up your data.

Re:PR# 06/24/88 0926 edt fri info-apple
   Mark Mandel writes:
  >My host is also a Multics system, like Dockmaster, and there's a very
  >simple fix for the loss of # while uploading.  # is Multics's default
  >"erase" character, as @ is its default "kill-line" character. When I'm
  >uploading a text file, I first issue the command
  >          stty -modes ^erkl

Re:Screwed by the host 06/23/88 0123 edt thu info-apple
  Murphy Sewall writes:
  >Some of us got confused as well as amused. .....

Machines are dumb but people are helpful on forums like INFO-APPLE. Please
note that the characters and format in this message are undistorted.

        Thanks to:
                *   My system administrator for unchanged format
                *   Mark Mandel for #'s and @'s
                *   Murphy Sewall for the gentle reminder to
                    properly reference messages.

Richard McAllister
ARPA: McAllister at Dockmaster.Arpa