On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:01:23PM -0400, Peter St. John wrote: > > Did I just > crash the DuPont Experimental Station Vax network? So I learned to quit out > of emacs before I learned to enter into it.
When I first started at my current employer in 1983, there were a scattering of mainframe (3270) terminals, all of which presented a short list of login options. One of these was TSO; that's what I had an account for and was supposed to be using. But one of the other choices was IMS [1]. One day, curiosity got the better of me and I selected that. Anyone who has used IMS probably knows what happened next: Big blank screen. I tried everything I could think of to get out of there: "quit", "exit", "bye", "logoff", "logout" -- nothing worked. Even power cycling the terminal of course does nothing on a 3270. Panicing at that point, I sheepishly called the mainframe help desk, and was told -- of course in a BOFH-ish tone of voice -- that the way you get out of there is with the "/RCL" command. As with <ctrl-x><ctrl-c> in emacs, this was the only command I ever learned in IMS. --Bob [1] http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/ims/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
