lock your terminal for lunch

[Alan J Rosenthal]

In article <1932 at reed.UUCP> alexis at reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis) writes:
>Much as I dislike locks (tying up a hard-to-get terminal while
>the user is having his coffee strikes me as objectionable)

Allow me to point out a use for locks.. I frequently use my lock program
while leaving for just a minute or two (literally), not to keep the
terminal, but to avoid the overhead of logging in again, which takes a
couple of minutes, which is as long as I am leaving for.

Alan J Rosenthal