I remember back in the '80s, before Windows, when everyone had a menu system such as Maestro on their DOS PCs, I reprogrammed a coworker's menu system. Whenever he brought up Harvard Graphics, it modified the menu option for Word. When he ran the Word option, it displayed a quick "Roberto is a doofus" balloon, then set the Word option back to normal, then ran Word. When he checked the Maestro settings, the Word option looked normal. But the next time he ran HG, the Word-option trigger was set again.
I didn't get sacked either. Not sure I ever got caught, come to think of it. Wait, I remember - that wasn't me, it was some other guy. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat? */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rupert Reynolds Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2020 09:52 Talking of "Hello, world!", I remember working in ISPF/TSO, when a line-mode message filled the screen. A text rendering of a ghost and "Nasty Wetmonster* phantom strikes again!". Everyone in the office got it. I looked up the TPUT macro and found the USERIDL= parameter. Some clown was scanning rhe control blocks, looking for any jobs with a User ID and sending a ghostly TPUT to every one. I don't think he ever got sacked :-) *name changed a bjt, to protect the guilty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
