RE: Moving to Mac

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL... HOPE not :-)

That reminds me of something that happened, probably over 20 years ago now.
I had just started at a sight and they were fighting with the IBM menu
system and where I had previously worked we used a file based menu system
that we had come up with. I outlined this to them, it was all that hard but
pretty radical back then I guess (this was on a fairly new S/38) and so I
set to work coding it. I got it done and "demo'd" it to them and loved it.
One of my co-workers who was responsible for menu maintenance among other
things looked like he could do cart wheels :-)

So I loaded up the base menu option file and we had certain #'s reserved.
999 was sign off, 888 was WRKSPLF can't remember what 777 was, 666 was
display messages, 555 was wrkoutq, etc. I wasn't even THINKING of it when I
did it I was just picking the highest #'s for specific stuff that was going
to stay the same and started at 444 and went. We got a call from a user that
did NOT want to have messages use 666. I felt sort of bad because I had
TOTALLY overlooked that...

Chuck

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Subject: RE: Moving to Mac

>How many files on your system are "777"? :)

I don't know about files, but I'm sure my users think my programs are
666.