Corn Puffs box misinformation

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sat Oct 12 19:23:00 2002

> > There have been complaints made about my spending time in my Operating
> > Systems class teaching the history! ("I don't want to hear about Gary
> > Kildall; I just want to know what to click on!")

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> You should take the mouse away from people who complain like that.

I gave them two large files and told them to determine whether they
matched. I even gave them the major hint that "FC" wasn't necessarily my
initials. I doubt that the mouse-clickers are done yet.


Any other good examples of stuff that is trivial to do at the prompt, but
difficult to do "on the desktop"?

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 19:23:00 BST

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