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  • Subject: Re: pcAnywhere 9.0
  • From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:34:39 -0500

You can find stuff to break the boredom !

This is really getting off topic, but YEARS ago we had figured out hot to write
interactively to a screen when it was not general knowledge. We had a guy in 
doing some
training with a junior programer and he was another know it all (we were NOT 
mean, I'm
sure you understand the type of person I mean. There are very knowledgeable 
folks that
don't act like it, are helpful and share, and don't flaunt it in your face - 
the ones I
call know it all's are NOT like this...).

So we wrote a program to "eat" the screen that was up (no matter what screen) 
character
by character (could of course to a whole line). The junior programmer had been 
tipped
off and she excused herself and came to us and said "You're not gonna BELIEVE 
this but
the dude said it must have been something atmospheric !!" !!!

We about died, and then changed so that after it "ate" the screen, it popped up 
the word
A  T  M  O  S  P  H  E  R  I  C... Unfortunately that was intended for the next 
day and
he never came back...

Chuck

Jeff Crosby wrote:

> Chuck Lewis wrote:
>
> > They were a "know it all" bunch that
> > could really get on your nerves. So from time to time when we were in the 
>computer
> > room and would notice them dialed in, we'd watch the type and the we'd 
>backspace,
> > they'd type, we'd backspace. If you got the timing just right it was pretty 
>funny
>
> ROTFLMAO!  This is fabulous.  I almost wish we used PC Anywhere just so
> I could do this to a couple of people. <g>
>
> --
> -Jeff
> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
> the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.
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