Word: ls
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...will ask you to sign-in. Type ANONYMOUS for your user id, and type username for your password. Once connected to the remote system, a couple of commands are necessary to examine and transfer programs. First, LS prints out the directory of files. CD changes the directory level, so that other files can be accessed...
...users should type CD /ibmpc/isib. Typing LS will then provide a list of sub-directories (such as GAMES, DOC, etc.) typing CD and then the sub-directory name will then move the user to that directory. Type GET filename to copy a file you are interested in into your mainframe directory. Typing GET program-library list will give you a list of many of the available programs. Now program-library. list can be typed out with the CAT filename command (similar to TYPE from...
...levies on the thrift industry. Besides the basic premiums of $780 million, the agency will assess the industry an additional $1 billion this year. In a more controversial vein, the agency rules governing accounting methods enable thrift institutions to appear stronger than they actually are. For example, S and Ls can stretch out the reporting of losses from mortgage sales. Moreover, 122 S and Ls now count among their assets so-called net-worth certificates, which are little more than Government IOUs that have been handed out by the FSLIC to dress up the balance sheets of troubled institutions...
...profits are expected to hit a record $6.5 billion this year, a strong rebound from the $4.6 billion loss suffered in 1981. The sharp drop in interest rates since 1981 has been responsible for much of the improvement. The fall in rates has reduced the interest that S and Ls pay to depositors faster than it has lowered the interest that the institutions earn on mortgages...
Many other institutions have run into difficulty by straying into new lines of business during the recent years of financial deregulation, which enabled S and Ls to cut their reliance on home mortgages and expand into riskier fields such as securities trading, commercial loans and real estate developments. Example: Territory Savings & Loan in Seminole, Okla., became insolvent last year, in part because of more than $10 million in losses on securities transactions. In Boynton Beach, Fla., Sunrise Savings & Loan fueled its growth with risky commercial loans on which it could charge high interest rates. Sunrise was reorganized by the bank...