>Or my client who was trying to find a file in a DOS directory. He kept telling me (by phone) that the computer said "file not found" Turns out he was typing
>DIR 8.8
>Because "Everybody knows that DOS doesn't care if you capitalize a command"
Wow, that sounds like a consultant we had for a project one time. I was talking to him on the phone and said, "Do a COPY star dot star from the floppy" and his indignant reply was, "My keyboard doesn't have a star or an asterisk on it". "Shift 8?", I asked. Then he said, "Oh."
Gee, I didn't know we had common customers! < BG >
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>>Kind of like the secretary asking me where the "any" key was when looking at a "Press any key to continue" message 20 years ago when all of this was very new.
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>>>Geez.... yeah I guess so.
>>>(I might even find it funny, at first, if it happened to me)
>>>
>>>Ryan