"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't ever remember programming to cope with equipment failure, > however. Did you make that bit up?
Not at the bit level in my case - but I do remember doing silly things like multiplying after a divide (all integer arithmetic) to make sure the answer was right. And we routinely had a checksum record at the end of all files that one would check when reading in - it was made by adding everything in every record as a big binary number - almost a kind of vertical parity. And it caught stuff out too. Then you would just re run, and the error would often go away. It has left me permanently scarred. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
