L&A Johnson wrote: > Gerry, today is one of those days: 9'th day of the 9'th month in year > 99. I hope your programming isn't too old. In early computer programming > days "9999" was often used to set a field to "deleted" status. So today > could bring some interesting electronic mayhem. Hold onto your emails > Gerry and ride the wave. Larry As you see, Gerry is still well, and those old programs in discussion are even older than our Vans, I heard that it mostly applied to computer programs from the 70s. I bet he will stand up to Y2K as well, I believe I am one of the few optimists at that time :-)) PerL 87 Syncro 112i |
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