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 Message 12987 
 Paul Quinn to Ed Vance 
 Local Area Connection 
 07 Nov 17 16:21:44 
 
Hi! Ed,

On 11/06/2017 08:21 AM, you wrote:

 PQ>> fixed through your accurate analysis and well-thought fix.

 EV> It was more of Me being Paranoid when I see some change in settings which
 EV> I don't remember making.

You don't say.  I went through that cycle just this morning.  You see
something didn't work... a script file on my Linux machine (AKA, a batch
file).  I know it should have worked 'cause it had worked at a command prompt,
a line at a time during testing.

I have been itching for the chance to use that script for two days, Ed.  My
chance came this morning, with the arrival of your note in fact. When it came
time to use it to update my news server settings (and other things) from a
remote site with that script, the last line of the configuration change failed.

It seems that I had stealthily hidden a copy/paste error from the testing
command prompt!  It had been sitting in a dark space in that script for two
days, waiting for an opportunity to pounce!  I was devastated.

 PQ>> ... A confident manner is important; Computers can sense this.
 EV> My computers try to destroy any confidence I think I have.......

I like to get my way.  OTOH, I know where the kill switch is.  :-D

Cheers,
Paul.

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