Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Being a consultant Message-ID: <5778@ficc.uu.net> Date: 18 Aug 89 13:27:10 GMT References: <5595@ficc.uu.net> <6221@hubcap.clemson.edu> <166@bbxeng.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 24 In article <166@bbxeng.UUCP>, scott@bbxeng.UUCP (Engineering) writes: > Do any of you lab-assistants and ex-lab-assistants out there have > have some good stories to share? Maybe start a thread in some other > group? My favorite was the business administration student who came up to me and said "Basic isn't working". I walk up to his terminal and it said, approximately: EECS 11/70 UNIX System ;login: cs100ab Password:Erase set to ^H, Kill set to ^X. % 10 LET A = 0 10: Command not found % -- Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "Optimization is not some mystical state of grace, it is an intricate act U of human labor which carries real costs and real risks." -- Tom Neff