In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/14/2006
at 03:08 PM, Tom Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Besides, how many COBOL application programmers read the manuals
>anyway? I cannot tell you the LARGE number of times I have had to
>read the documentation to them over the phone (or in person) because
>they were too lazy to read and understand the material.
I've generally found that if I can't find the manual and ask *them* to
read the message to me from their copy that they eventually learn to
read it before calling me. But when TFM tells them that it's self
explanatory[1], I can't blame them for panicking.
[1] I've certainly seen messages that actually were self explanatory,
but invariably those were *not* the ones that IBM claimed were
self explanatory.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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