Re: Flame Bait! Windows vs: The Unices

From: Richard Heathfield (invalid_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 01/24/04 

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 23:16:32 +0000

Programmer Dude wrote:

> I think I've figured it out! Your MI5/6 intelligence gathering gear
> is interferring with Windows software somehow....

Darn, that'll be it. Possibly it's all that Tempesting kit I keep in the
car.

>>> Actually, you snipped it. The <typo snipped> was all there was.
>>
>> Huh? Er, hang on...
>>
>> Oh, so I did. It was my typo, not yours.
>
> You snipped and commented on your own typo?

Yes. The typo just shouldn't have been there at all, and I generally make an
effort to indicate snippage, even when it's of little or no consequence.
(Actually, I'm getting less and less careful about this, I'm afraid.)

> What what it? Now I
> just have to know!

Believe it or not, the word "Unix" (on a line on its own) had managed to
sneak into that file-types list. I'm not quite sure how it happened, but
it's too trivial to care about. 

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