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What does "flop 1%" mean?

This is your system prompt, like "C:" on DOS machines. The number before the percent symbol increases by one for each command. Type history or just h to see a list of past commands. To run a command again, type "!number" where number is the command's number from the history listing.

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Date Created: Sep 10, 2003
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