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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Don't do that then!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dogwash.html" title="dogwash"/><link rel="next" href="dongle.html" title="dongle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Don't do that then!</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogwash.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dongle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Don-t-do-that-then-"/><dt xmlns="" id="Don-t-do-that-then-"><b>Don't do that then!</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from an old doctor's office joke about a patient with a trivial
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complaint] Stock response to a user complaint. “<span class="quote">When I type
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control-S, the whole system comes to a halt for thirty seconds.</span>”
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“<span class="quote">Don't do that, then!</span>” (or “<span class="quote">So don't do that!</span>”).
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Compare <a href="../R/RTFM.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFM</i></a>.</p><p>Here's a classic example of “<span class="quote">Don't do that then!</span>” from
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Neal Stephenson's <i class="citetitle">In The Beginning Was The Command
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Line</i>. A friend of his built a network with a load of Macs and
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a few high-powered database servers. He found that from time to time the
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whole network would lock up for no apparent reason. The problem was
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eventually tracked down to MacOS's cooperative multitasking: when a user
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held down the mouse button for too long, the network stack wouldn't get a
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chance to run...</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dogwash.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="dongle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dogwash </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> dongle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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