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...in a Windows app, you press Ctrl+O to summon the Open File dialog, and in the File Name box, you accidentally type "cd \www\lego". =:*} --Todd (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: You know you're a keyboard and command-line geek when...
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(...) Sounds like a Uber-Garlic Pickle side effect. :') I still have to stop myself all the time from using DOS commands to reset the clock, change passwords, etc. Its hard to teach an old DOS new tricks. (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: You know you're a keyboard and command-line geek when...
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(...) Yeah, but it's harder to teach a new OS old tricks. ;-) James (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: You know you're a keyboard and command-line geek when...
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(...) Zou know when zou have used a German kezboard too much when zou use a 'y' instead of a 'z' and press alt gr Q to get an @. Now where's that pound sign... (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: You know you're a keyboard and command-line geek when...
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(...) Or you actually go through the hassle to read the result of "type filename.txt |more" instead of using Notepad. -Tom McD. (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: You know you're a keyboard and command-line geek when...
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(...) How about "more filename.txt"? That's shorter than "notepad filename.txt". --Todd (26 years ago, 6-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I felt the same way when I reached the end of the Jargon File. I tried asking "more jargon.txt", which was ignored of course because there was no more Jargon File, so I asked again "more jargon.txt", which caused my server and the orphans (...) (26 years ago, 7-Apr-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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