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In 1991 I was working at a place with a Novell Netware network. I decided to make a system that would execute remote commands by writing them to a shared direct
by spullara 9y ago
In 1991 I was working at a place with a Novell Netware network. I decided to make a system that would execute remote commands by writing them to a shared directory and other machines would see the files and execute the commands. I named those files COMXXXXX.TXT where the X's were a random number (yeah, that was a bad idea). Every few days the system would hang and stop working. I finally narrowed it down to the random number being 1-9 that would correspond to the serial ports on the machine and it would then hang.
- tedunangst 9y agoLesson: always zero pad.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoTo be fair, that was not at all obvious from your tersely worded post.
- ComputerGuru 9y agoI’m sorry, I seem to have fat fingered it and replied to the wrong post.