Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.ARPA!McAllister 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 Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 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