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  Re: So you think you know your stuff?
 
A lot of the questions are very Microsoft-biased, or at least personal computer biased. What does ctrl-c do? Well, it sends sigint, yeah? What does ctrl-z do? It's EOF on VMS. "Supporting dynamic and static drives" is a bit weird -- I suppose Linux (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: So you think you know your stuff?
 
(...) Yeah, I ended up just grabbing the Flash program and running it against strings to get the questions. I didn't know that your toothbrush is supposed to be a certain distance from the toilet, though. :) Chris (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: So you think you know your stuff?
 
(...) And DOS, and even Windows. If you're at an MS-based command prompt, and you enter COPY CON FILE.TXT, you won't get your prompt back until you hit ctrl-z. Steve (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: So you think you know your stuff?
 
(...) Oh yeah, that's right! I wonder what CP/M used.... Ctrl-C is the really stupid one -- I dunno what apple was thinking with that. (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: So you think you know your stuff?
 
"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message news:fkj14t027aoqrer...4ax.com... (...) OK, maybe we should have put something up along the lines of "given the 3 available answers, which is the correct one". Did anyone find the one about my (...) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: So you think you know your stuff?
 
(...) In general, good to specify the operating system. Not all geeks are microsoft geeks. :) (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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