UCSD P System (was: Why is it that ...

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Nov 30 02:57:43 2000

On Nov 29, 20:38, Jim Battle wrote:
> At 06:07 PM 11/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >...
> >And it really didn't make PC-DOS look good. I've put a screen shot
> >of the UCSD P-system file manager prompt at:
> >http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/gif/filer.gif.
> >You may remember what those letters stand for, but I don't.
> ...
>
> For those not wanting to chase the link, it says:
>
> Filer: G, S, N, L, R, C, T, D, Q [1.1]
>
> Don't you remember? This was the security mechanism.
> You had to play a game of hangman and win before you
> could run the compiler. The person above obviously doesn't
> know the key to hangman is the vowels.

Hmm.... my versions show the menu as something like

G(et, S(ave, N(ew, L(dir, R(en, C(hng, T(rans, D(ate, Q(uit

but there are more options on an 80-column screen.


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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York
Received on Thu Nov 30 2000 - 02:57:43 GMT

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