Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Fox Club were surprised by Dining Service's prompt response...
...curious to see exactly how your packets are getting from place to place, use a traceroute utility. To track the way packets go from a Harvard Unix system, just type traceroute followed by the name of the computer in question at the prompt. Or download a traceroute utility from a Web site like shareware.com to test the paths from your desktop computer itself...
...sign is what's known as a "command prompt." When you type pine and press the Enter key, you're simply telling fas to run an Internet e-mail program called pine. But fas and all of Harvard's Unix systems have dozens of other programs just waiting to be called...
...complicated at all to read news; just type tin at the fas% prompt instead of typing pine. Tin is a perfect newsreader for beginners, and a great way to get into the world of Usenet...
...system gets pretty slow during the day; if you're in a hurry, simply type ph at the fas% prompt, where is the last name or full name of the person whose number you want. You'll find out their phone number and e-mail address in a matter of seconds...