Charles Mills wrote, in part:
>I never bothered -- I have always gone with (s) as in "You have %d dog(s)"
You could substitute "an integer value greater 0 and less than 2" when it's
"1", and then "dogs" would always be correct :)
--
s. He's in charge of documentation. I'm just in
charge of installation."
Charles
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My favorite is a marketing guy I was supporting. He called for my help with
some problem that had occurred - I don't remember what exactly, probably with a
DYL-280II program that he'd written with my help - and, as always, I asked him
what the error message had said. "Oh, it said some damn thi
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That's cool, the is/are and pluralization. I never bothered -- I have always
gone with (s) as i
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Things like numeric conversion and scooting text around are difficult in
assembler, so I would tend to put that off until later [1]. Then one
day I coded a macro and underlying subroutine so I could do something
Things like numeric conversion and scooting text around are difficult in
assembler, so I would tend to put that off until later [1]. Then one
day I coded a macro and underlying subroutine so I could do something
like this:
#PRINTF SYSPRINT,'DFS0929I BLDL ON DDNAME %s FAILED with RC=%d FOR
ME
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:02:40 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
anybody's guess.
Rex
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When I bought my Yamaha piano in 1989, I hea
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When I bought my Yamaha piano in 1989, I heard a story that Yamaha had been
supplying free pianos to universities for years. It was more than them just
being nice, they knew that someone practici
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Lionel B Dyck wrote:
> Y'all stop using logic and reason - this is an emotional issue that the
> author and others are invested in and has nothing to do with IBM
> effectively telling the world that the mainframe is dead based on all the
> layoffs that have occurred
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character than your reputation. Character is what you
are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden
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y what others think you are." - John Wooden
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So does this me
lf of
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Maybe based on their "logic", my z14 is 30 years old because we're running an
application on i
years old.
Rex
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Interesting re 2):
"The survey found that organi
So does this mean that 2/3 of companies out there are running unsupported
hardware and software?
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