I am repeatedly amazed at supposedly professional computer people who don't
know how to report problems. When an end user calls me and says "it didn't
work", I get it; I have to drag the necessary information out of him with
pointed and sometimes repeated questions ("What ~did~ it do?" "Nothing." "
'Nothing'? You mean the computer stopped? The screen was blank? The power
went off? Or was there, by chance, an error message?") But when the plaintiff
is a programmer, what's up with that?
Sigh.
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Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313
/* In the twinkling of an eye, in a time too small to be measured, and in any
place, all that seems to divide us from God can flee away, vanish leaving us
naked before Him, like the first man, like the only man, as if nothing but He
and I existed. And since that contact cannot be avoided for long, and since it
means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. -C
S Lewis, _Dogma and the Universe_ */
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 08:33
....The first file had an M in the position. The second one did not. I think
the programmer is trying to recover deleted records, and so the second, OUTFIL,
seems, to me, to be what he wants. But that's up to him. The programmers never
seem to tell us what they want, just "this isn't doing what I expect".
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