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Samson Perera <[log in to unmask]>
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Samson Perera <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:06:30 -0500
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Thank you all, for the input.
Samson

On 8/25/20, Colin Howard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I ought to have said, even me, of 52 years using computers, still make
> silly
> errors!
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:26:01 +0100, Colin Howard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> -Greetings,
> -
> -40 years? a mere kid! (smiles), I can give you 52 years!
> -
> -My first experience in 1969-70 with a real computere was an IBM1620
> -mainframe, on which we used Fortran2.
> -
> -On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:57:54 +0000, Mike Pietruk <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> -
> --Samson
> --
> --Things like this happen more than we might think; and, at least when I do
>
> --stuff like this, it is a pure accident even though I've been using
> --computers for around 40 years or so.
> --Then, like you, it frustrates me to no end until, of course, when I
> --discover, totally by accident, what caused this anomaly -- and then I can
>
> --laugh at myself for my own stupidity, carelessness -- call it what you
> --like.
> --Other times, one might create a short cut, such as this was, not
> realizing
> --that it is modifyying something that should have never been modified --
> --and, if changed, more thought should have been taken to see the
> --consequences.
> --
> --Now, if I had discovered this unintentional hotkey, rather than deleting
> --it, I would have likely changed it to hopefully something more
> --non-intrusive.
> --But, then, of course, I later might discover that it interfered with
> --something else.
> --
> --Thanks for sharing.
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