Microfortnights

At 09:50 AM 20-10-98 -0400, CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote: Hey, that's cheating :-) You're also luck that TIMEPROMPTWAIT starts with TIME. As far as I remember, wild carding within SYSGEN is not exactly optimal. Wildcards match the first occurrence.... The story I heard about uFortnights was a bit of an "in joke" within VMS development. There was obviously a concerted effort to make VMS documentation as dry as IBM stuff is perceived, so the developers put up this new unit to see how far up the chain of cleansing it would go before being "expunged". I hear that there was some surprise and embarrassment when it escaped to customers. Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"