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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: alt 255
- Message-ID: <exuptr.454.716056392@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 16:33:12 GMT
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- In article <BtpI5v.3CJ@ireq.hydro.qc.ca> beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
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- >One amazing thing I saw was someone who put a file named *.* in a PC!
- >The trouble is that the PC was in a remote location (50 miles from the
- >nearest town), most persons working in that place having a limited
- >knowledge of PC. We presumed at that time some visitor, in prevision
- >of loosing a maintenance contract, decided to write some *.* files.
- >A user not very familiar with PC could try to erase those annoying files ...
- >and the other files as well :-( We were lucky to discover this before
- >damage :-) , but unable to find who make that.
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- I hate it when that happens.
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