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Re: [LUG] oh great!

 

On Saturday 13 January 2007 09:07, Tom Potts wrote:

> Back in the good old days that was the DOS (a way of crippling computers M$
> bought in before Windows)  way of formatting the hard drive. Basically that
> wiped your system and made it inoperable.
Hi

No quite, it then warned you you were about to wipe your hard disk, and  
invited you to "push any key to continue".

Unfortunately ESC is also (was also) any key.

Don't ask how I know..

Peter L-J
  

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