Or ask you if you meant "Disneyland"/

Jim

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 7:39 PM Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com>
wrote:

> On 11/22/2018 4:06 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
> > Tom Brennan wrote, in part:
> >
> >> Maybe someday everything will be like Google, so I can type DNS= (which
> >> I do often enough) and the system will ask me "Did you mean DSN?"
> >
> > 30+ years ago, a friend wrote a CMS ENDCMD NUCEXT (a routine that got
> control at the end of a console command) called DWIM - Do What
> > I Mean. It would look for failed return codes, analyze the command, and
> "fix" it. Of course since he'd written it, it worked as he'd
> > expect it to. And he still HATED it. Maybe a lesson?
>
> Yeah, on second thought such correction might end up as bad as the
> auto-correct on cell phone texting programs :)
>
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