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Subject:Killer - Reply From:"Walter L. Bazzini" <73300 -dot- 111 -at- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:40:00 EST
>> Those who are having a problem with 'abort' might consider using
'abend'. I've been seeing it used for about thirty years in the
computer industry to mean essentially the same thing as abort. <<
What user -- I assume that's who we're writing this for -- having finally found
the manual, and is now desperately looking for the <Ctrl> and <Break> keys, and
wondering, "Do I hit them one after the other, or both at the same time?" is
gonna know what the hell "abend" means?
--Walter Bazzini
73300 -dot- 111 -at- compuserve -dot- com
