On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:31:24 -0500, Bill Fairchild wrote: >It can always be worse. I once saw a vendor's SE give a 10- or 20-page >printout to a colleague of mine, who then sat at a keypunch for several hours >punching cards to match the VERIFY and ZAP hex data for the dozens of PTFs >described in said hand-out. This vendor apparently could not understand how >error-prone their preferred method of distributing maintenance was. I hate to >cast aspersions on any vendor, but the product might have been Eye Dee Emm Ess >before its owner was bought by CA. > Not quite so bad, perhaps, but infrequently I've asked users to email me some data rather than scribbling on my deskpad or dictating on the phone. Sometimes I get screen-capture.JPEG.
Clearly, I lack the proper OCR tool. (Or MicroShaft intrudes and converts BLKSIZE=6400 to BLKSIZEd00.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
