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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
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Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 11:40:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 11:40:56 1987
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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. :-)
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