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Re: So you think you know your stuff?
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 15:56:23 GMT
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> wrote in message
news:fkj14t027aoqrer0d13hc09ia98ii04olu@4ax.com...
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller wrote:

What does
ctrl-z do? It's EOF on VMS.

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.

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 trip to hospital yet? I'll give you a clue
... it involved teeth :)

Dan



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  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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(...) 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)

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