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Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

ColinPa

thin fingers, small brain

I remember working with someone on z/VM where they had carefully created synonyms: E for Edit, BR for Browse, and ER for erase.

So the sequence was BR to browse the file, it is the right file, retrieve the command and overtype E for edit - whoops the file has gone as the command was now ER ..

When I pointed this out to him he said he wondered why half his files kept going missing every day.

I helped him remove his ER synonym, and removed his ability to write to common disks.

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