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Date: Sun 10-Oct-1990 00:01:09 From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) Subject: Workspace Exiting Unexpectedly By accident I typed in three forward slashes in the Workspace Name Expansion window and I got logged out! I was experimenting afterwards and it seems you can get yourself logged out even by typing two slashes in a row. Is this an undocumented feature? Sal. ------- Salvatore Saieva Internet: slvqc@cunyvm.cuny.edu Queens College, Academic Computer Center BITNET: slvqc@cunyvm.bitnet 65-30 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, N.Y. 11367 DeskNet: (718) 520-7662
Date: Sun 10-Oct-1990 16:14:23 From: keith@panews Subject: Re: Workspace Exiting Unexpectedly In article <90282.200109SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes: >By accident I typed in three forward slashes in the Workspace >Name Expansion window and I got logged out! I was experimenting >afterwards and it seems you can get yourself logged out even >by typing two slashes in a row. Is this an undocumented feature? Yeah, isn't it great! Logout in less than three seconds! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keith Mason ...!ibmsupt!keith (415) 855-3920
Date: Sun 10-Oct-1990 23:49:17 From: moose@svc.portal.com Subject: Re: Workspace Exiting Unexpectedly In article <90282.200109SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes: >By accident I typed in three forward slashes in the Workspace >Name Expansion window and I got logged out! I was experimenting >afterwards and it seems you can get yourself logged out even >by typing two slashes in a row. Is this an undocumented feature? Thank you for this tidbit. Now I know how to log off the cube without getting that irritating message box. Unfortunately, this feature has been removed in system 2.0. Bummer.
Date: Sun 11-Oct-1990 05:24:39 From: scott@NIC.GAC.EDU Subject: Re: Workspace Exiting Unexpectedly moose@svc.portal.com writes: >In article <90282.200109SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes: >>By accident I typed in three forward slashes in the Workspace >>Name Expansion window and I got logged out! I was experimenting >>afterwards and it seems you can get yourself logged out even >>by typing two slashes in a row. Is this an undocumented feature? > >Thank you for this tidbit. Now I know how to log off the cube without getting >that irritating message box. Unfortunately, this feature has been removed in >system 2.0. Bummer. Note, though, that using the '///' feature in Workspace actually seems to kill off the Workspace, not log it out. As if root did kill -9 on it. Thus, you might find that certain programs (like Stuart) don't correctly fix certain files that are modified in the course of the program. Then again, if you _really_ need to get out of the Workspace fast :-). scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer (Stuart) NeXT Campus Consultant (Not much, really) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!) <I still speak for nobody>
Date: Sun 11-Oct-1990 06:58:36 From: peterd@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) Subject: Re: Workspace Exiting Unexpectedly In article <1990Oct10.234917.707@svc.portal.com>, moose@svc.portal.com writes: > In article <90282.200109SLVQC@CUNYVM.BITNET> SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva) writes: > >By accident I typed in three forward slashes in the Workspace > >Name Expansion window and I got logged out! I was experimenting > >afterwards and it seems you can get yourself logged out even > >by typing two slashes in a row. Is this an undocumented feature? > > Thank you for this tidbit. Now I know how to log off the cube without getting > that irritating message box. Unfortunately, this feature has been removed in > system 2.0. Bummer. Well, we debated quite a bit on whether this was a bug or a feature, but after some testing it appears that it is not 100 percent reliable - if you hit the three slashs, then the <Return> key fast enough, you actually hang the Workspace Manager (I didn't do this, but I showed this to a person who is I think the fastest touch-typist I know and he hung it with 100 percent reliability.) the other apps keep going, so you can go into a Shell and kill the Workspace Manager, this clears things up and you can log in again. Thus I conclude that it is a bug, not a feature. Pity, I like the idea. Of course, I don't type that fast, it doesn't appear to be leaving a core file anywhere, and the machine emits no smoke, so until told otherwise, and until 2.0 arrives, I'm using it! - peterd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +-------+ Peter Deutsch McGill University | u # u | peterd@cs.mcgill.ca School of Computer Science |/\/\/\/| | a a | This misinformation cheerfully brought to you \ a / by someone that just doesn't take it \___/ all too seriously. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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