This is obviously my grumpy morning.  And I have even had my prescribed dosage of 
coffee...

I have been working with some software from a major instrumentation manufacturer.  It 
is one of those VIs that tries to do everything with multiple tabbed front panels and 
lots of user interface controls and property nodes.

Opening diagram extends over about 7 screens horizontally and 6 screens vertically 
(1600X1200 pixel screens).  Ok, bad enough, now open the hierarchy window and I see a 
main VI and about 200 express nodes, that I can't open without converting to sub-VIs.  
There were 4 actual real non-system subVIs in the whole thing with main VI using about 
12 Mb of disk space.

Unfortunately the programmer had hardwired the path separation character so it failed 
on all platforms except the development one.  The character was in 26 different places 
and each place was wired into somewhere between 1 and a dozen string building 
functions.

-Scott


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