Using his own criterion Shmuel's '24x265' is just plain wrong too, but '2' and '3' are adjacent on all of the keyboards I am familiar with, and what we have here is all but certainly a typo.
Now that it has exhausted itself in trivia, it may be useful to draw a portentous moral from this thread. On the computer-technology time scale IMBED and REPLICATE, once chic, are now dysfunctional creatures of the remote past. Their presence in user catalogs means, in effect, that the design of these catalogs has not been reconsidered or even trivially revised in a very long time. One eminent contributor here judges this and its like positively, as establishing the robust immortality of the mainframe. I see it differently, as evidence that the vierws and practices of those who manage many (and in particular many American) mainframe shops are ". . . insular, suspiciously unanimous, risk-averse, and mediocre". Things might have been different, but these shops deserve to die, and they will be picked off one after another. What is unfortunate about this is that, as usual, the wrong people will suffer the consequences of this crackpot realism. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
