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> We had a boss named Herman...

Oh, funny!  I thought it was "her man" when I first saw it.

Not quite the Genesis code, is it? <g>

db

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx / Steve Landess
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 5:23 PM
> 
> The same programmer was also a jokester -
> he would arrange source statements in the code so that
> if you read down the first character of the field names
> that they would spell out words or sentences - I found
> this quite by accident one day.
> 
> Example:
> MOVE *BLANKS      HLD1
> MOVE *BLANKS      E$
> MOVE *BLANKS      RFLG
> MOVE  *BLANKS     MTH
> MOVE *BLANKS      ADATE
> MOVE  *ZEROS         NBR
> 
> MOVE  *BLANKS      SVCO
> MOVE  *BLANKS      USER
> MOVE  *BLANKS      CO
> MOVE  *BLANKS      K$
> MOVE  *ZEROS         SEQNBR
> 
> We had a boss named Herman...
> 
> Steve

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