>From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Cygwin + Oracle (Pro*C) >Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:26:46 -0600
>>At 22:34 2003-03-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>On 13 Mar 2003, günter strubinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: >>>>I am lost right now. >>>Maybe you can't see the way because all that html is in the way. >>Right. And that silly ASCII business is overkill, too. >>I'm starting a new campaign to go >>back to Fieldata and Baudot. Who >>needs all that fancy-pants punctuation? >>If you can't get your meaning >>across with letters, numbers, comma, >>period and quotes (and, of course, >>the all-important dollar $ign), you >>just don't know how to communicate. >>Oh, yeah, and parentheses, of course... >>Hell, Fieldata has six unused >>codes. What a waste! Better stick to Baudot. >>RRS >Pfhht, "Fieldata", "Baudot"! Kids today >and their MIL-STD's and their "letter >sets" and their "figure sets", bah! >Why, in my day, we had to press crude >wooden styli into wet clay tablets to >exchange information! Mehhhh. And when >the clay dried and turned rock-hard >before you were finished, you'd get >slivers from the stylus embedded in your >fingers. And the slivers would get >infected, and pus would ooze all over >your clay tablet, and we'd exchange pus- >stained clay-tablet information and >that's the way it was AND WE LIKED IT! >We loved it. We couldn't get enough of >it. Yeah, we liked it just fine. Two 'important' points were left out of this 'cogent' summary: * The data had to "walk uphill" in both directions on the transmission line * Rosanne Rosannadanna lives! 'If it's not one thing it's another ...' Well stroked youse guys. ;-) And, I apologize for not encoding my message thusly: ooo.oooo o . ooo o. o oo . oo oo.oo o.o o . o . . . . -- Lee D. Rothstein -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------- VeriTech -- 603-424-2900 7 Merry Meeting Drive Merrimack, NH 03054-2934 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
