Word: promptness
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...have an account on Harvard's fas system, I'll bet you have a little secret you don't share with anybody else. You log in a few times each day, wait a few minutes for the fas% prompt to rear its head, and then... and then...
...first step on the road to recovery is to realize that the fas% prompt isn't "just" for e-mail. When you use telnet to connect to fas.harvard.edu, you're opening what's called a "session" on a big, expensive machine in the Science Center...
...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...
When I ask about attendance, though, he's terse. "It's dreadful, the greyhound industry is going through its absolute worst times." Before I get a chance to prompt him, he's blaming Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. They definitely siphon off business, he says, particularly among young people. "When greyhound racing came on the scene, it was one of the only legal forms of gambling," he explains, "but now our customers are dying off, and there's no one to replace them...