Not my hack but - when I was in college, there were two computer labs: one for CS majors and one for humanities majors who just wanted to type research papers.

Not my hack but - when I was in college, there were two computer labs: one for CS majors and one for humanities majors who just wanted to type research papers. The CS computers booted to a DOS prompt and you could run anything on them, but the “writing lab” computers were configured to boot straight to wordperfect, and the exit command was password protected. A friend realized that you could hit F12 to get a shell (a DOS prompt), use that to look up the exit password, and exit out of WP on the writing lab computers.