29 Nov
2000
29 Nov
'00
6:57 p.m.
On Nov 29, 20:38, Jim Battle wrote:
At 06:07 PM 11/29/00 -0800, you wrote:
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.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
...
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. 