[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <6ce7783d-2cd0-4fb5-a40c-014888d8aa0e at n2g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>On Feb 2, 10:15=A0am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <nospam-32427A.15340602022... at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <n=
>os... at sture.ch> writes:
>> >In article <00ACE3CF.59FF1... at SendSpamHere.ORG>,
>> > VAXman- =A0 at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>
>> >> On linux:
>>
>> >> vaxman at Satellite:~$ man cd
>> >> No manual entry for cd
>>
>> >> I suppose I'll never know what 'cd' does now.
>
>My point was that it would be nice to run a simple command, like "man
>cd", or HELP CD, or CD /?, or similar, to find if there are any cool
>features. I think "cd -" is very cool. One of my biggest gripes about
>Unix is the large amount of typing it takes to move around the file
>system. Yes, I could copy and paste, but I don't like to use the mouse
>and it slows things down, and you might to scroll back a few pages,
>which slows things down even more. I wish there were something like
>TO.COM in Unix. With TO.COM you can not only easily go back <n>
>directories, but you have easy-to-remember easy-to-type aliases for
>the last <n> directories, where n is 9 by default.
>
>[...]
>
>>
>> The sarcasm missed yet again...
>
>My point was missed, too.
>
>>
>> --
>> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker =A0 =A0VAXman(at)TMESIS(=
>dot)ORG
>>
>> Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
>
>AEF
>
>I speak to my computer at work: "You stupid machine!" and the
>occasional -- how shall I put it -- "GFDI".

That's not the machine in my quotation. ;)
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Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.