Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!skat.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes Message-ID: <5432@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 11:40:56 EST Article-I.D.: oberon.5432 Posted: Sat Nov 28 11:40:56 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Nov-87 03:36:34 EST References: <1721@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> <1621@megatest.UUCP> Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) Organization: USC AIS, Los Angeles Lines: 13 Keywords: Novice and Expert, Programmer and End User In article <7995@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes: >(The VMS interface is not always so friendly to novices: name the file >"junk" instead of "junk.txt", and a novice may never figure out how to >read it. As for expert interfaces, rename the expert's .emacs file to >sav.emacs and watch him/her try to recover.) I'm no VMS expert and I know a way to recover. Use a gun to put a few bullets in the aproprate disk drive. (When it is replaced and the backups restored, my .emacs reappears. :-) -- Bob Larson Arpa: Blarson@Ecla.Usc.Edu Uucp: {sdcrdcf,cit-vax}!oberon!skat!blarson blarson@skat.usc.edu Prime mailing list (requests): info-prime-request%fns1@ecla.usc.edu