I don't want to believe it, but, alas, I do :-(

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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Sent: Friday, February 3, 2023 10:00 AM
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Subject: Re: I want to cry

O my.

I was on a call with a bunch of customers a few years ago. One of them was
having a very basic problem with a COBOL program calling our product. I
explained that they needed to put the name of <something> into a variable
that gets passed as the first parameter. Silence, then..."What's a
variable?"

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 5:31 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:

> C: My COBOL program got <error description>
> M: What's in Register 14
> C: But COBOL doesn't use registers
>
>
> --
> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:28 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: I want to cry
>
> Customer : Could you please have a look and help us to fix the issue .
> Customer log :  IEA992I SLIP TRAP ID=S047 MATCHED.
>
> ME :
> 1. Hire a sysprog
> 2. RTFM
> 3. Google Play and hit update
> 4. Apple store and hit update
> 5. Check calendar and mortgage and see when I can retire
> 6. Tears welling up realising I can't actually say any of 1-4.
>
> .........
>
> It's slow today down under.....
>
> haveagoodweegend.
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