[ale] Argh!!

[Dow Hurst]

Would screen have been a way to prevent the loss?  Just asking as I am 
still learning how to use it.
Dow


James P. Kinney III wrote:

>I do like the tabbed shells on gnome-terminal. But I was a bit over the
>2 hour mark into populating a database from a series of text files that
>takes about 3.5 hours when I fat fingered the switch to another shell
>window. I _meant_ to hit <alt>-4 and hit <alt>-F4 and closed the whole
>#$(&^ window!!
>
>
>There are days when I truly despise computers. I've been arguing with
>this database for a while (150k+ items into Interchange linked with
>sql-ledger on PostgreSQL) and I think I'm going to go drink whiskey now
>and not look at for a day or so.
>
>
>AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>  
>

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