Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030316013856.0738a260@rogue.codemeta.com> X-Sender: lee@rogue.codemeta.com (Unverified) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 01:43:18 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Lee D. Rothstein" Subject: RE: Cygwin + Oracle (Pro*C) + Your Mother Cc: g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" >To: >Subject: RE: Cygwin + Oracle (Pro*C) >Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:26:46 -0600 >>At 22:34 2003-03-13, news@garydjones.mailshell.com wrote: >>>On 13 Mar 2003, günter strubinsky wrote: >>>>I am lost right now. >>>Maybe you can't see the way because all that html is in the way. >>Right. And that silly ASCII business is overkill, too. >>I'm starting a new campaign to go >>back to Fieldata and Baudot. Who >>needs all that fancy-pants punctuation? >>If you can't get your meaning >>across with letters, numbers, comma, >>period and quotes (and, of course, >>the all-important dollar $ign), you >>just don't know how to communicate. >>Oh, yeah, and parentheses, of course... >>Hell, Fieldata has six unused >>codes. What a waste! Better stick to Baudot. >>RRS >Pfhht, "Fieldata", "Baudot"! Kids today >and their MIL-STD's and their "letter >sets" and their "figure sets", bah! >Why, in my day, we had to press crude >wooden styli into wet clay tablets to >exchange information! Mehhhh. And when >the clay dried and turned rock-hard >before you were finished, you'd get >slivers from the stylus embedded in your >fingers. And the slivers would get >infected, and pus would ooze all over >your clay tablet, and we'd exchange pus- >stained clay-tablet information and >that's the way it was AND WE LIKED IT! >We loved it. We couldn't get enough of >it. Yeah, we liked it just fine. Two 'important' points were left out of this 'cogent' summary: * The data had to "walk uphill" in both directions on the transmission line * Rosanne Rosannadanna lives! 'If it's not one thing it's another ...' Well stroked youse guys. ;-) And, I apologize for not encoding my message thusly: ooo.oooo o . ooo o. o oo . oo oo.oo o.o o . o . . . . -- Lee D. Rothstein -- lee@veritech.com ---------------- VeriTech -- 603-424-2900 7 Merry Meeting Drive Merrimack, NH 03054-2934 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/