slightly OT: preventing user stupidity

[Butch Ammon]

I agree with all these reply posts...

I have a copy of John Esak's "clone" routine and have it in place in my big 
inventory file.  It makes a snapshot of what the stock balances were and what 
they got changed to.  It comes in handy to CYA... ;)

I have tried whacky humorous input prompts, even going with a "Finding Nemo" 
theme  -  i.e. the scene with the Sea Turtles...  for the guy in my receiving 
dept.

Q: Dude, like whoa, are you TOTALLY sure you want to run this?
A: user presses Y or N

Q: I mean, like, dude, are you TOTALLY SURE 'cause there ain't no bailing out!
A: user presses Y or N

Even nutty off-the-wall input questions like these, didn't work.  So, I used the
"clone" routine and mirrored the file before the big auto receiving process was 
run.  Then I just wrote a batch routine to reset back anything that was changed,
in the even the user messed up.

Butch Ammon
Super Radiator Coils
Richmond, VA