[Techtalk] Learn by typo, was: Debugging/ Troubleshooting book

Sonja Krause-Harder skh at gmx.com
Thu Aug 1 20:50:39 EST 2002


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:03:07PM +0100, hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk wrote:
 
> I did not initially discover Usenet by trying to do 'rm' and hitting'
> 'rn' instead, but I know people who did. I found 'mc' when trying to
> move (mv) files. Trying to list a directory, I invoked the linker and
> was told I had a bad magic number, which gave me a laugh. (ls/ld)
> And then there was the cd/dc mix-up. "Where has my prompt gone?"
> Et cetera, et cetera.

I discovered version tracking this way: vi/ci.

Son"Oh, what does ,v now mean?"ja



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