Sat, 21 May 1994 19:37:08 +0200
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On Sat, 21 May 1994 12:35:52 -0500 Winship <[log in to unmask]> said:
>Very clever, Eric. I take it you did not consider this a seriously
>intended question.
I don't know, you sounded too naive to be genuine, given your experience.
When you type 'dit *.exe' on your PC, you get an error, not a list of
files. How many systems do you know that take the risk of second-guessing
your intent by trying to "correct" your typing mistakes? It's one thing
to do that in advanced word processors, where the only risk is having to
correct the error manually. But say you typed 'der *.exe', meaning dir,
and got 'del *.exe', now how happy would you be? :-)
>The question still stands, what *is* the default?
The default is to send the errors to the list owner. In fact there is no
option to send it to the "From:" address. Many broken systems do that,
without going through LISTSERV. Unfortunately you can't do anything about
that.
>I asked the question because for some of our commands with listserv we
>don't have to spell out the whole word, just a portion of it or even
>sometimes the first letter will do.
True, but there is a difference between an abbreviation and an error. If
you type DEL, you get DELETE, but if you type DELT, you get an error.
Eric
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