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  2. From: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
  4. Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
  5. Message-ID: <NICKEL.92Nov19113800@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
  6. Date: 19 Nov 92 10:38:01 GMT
  7. References: <10292323.7317.11306@kcbbs.gen.nz> <1992Nov18.123436.25443@news.columbia.edu>
  8.     <BxxKM0.H4r@unx.sas.com>
  9. Reply-To: nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de
  10. Organization: STONE Project, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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  13. In-reply-to: sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:20:24 GMT
  14.  
  15. In article <BxxKM0.H4r@unx.sas.com> sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com (James
  16. Adams) writes:
  17.  
  18. > If a program quits working, first try re-compiling it. It probably just
  19. > needs to be refreshed...
  20.  
  21. Yeah, software rots. Recompiling often helps -- but not always,
  22. sometimes you actually have to change the source to make it work
  23. again.
  24.  
  25. --
  26. Juergen Nickelsen
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