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- Path: sparky!uunet!utoday!jaflrn!mertwig!xyzzy
- From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Message-ID: <g38muB4w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 09:45:27 EST
- References: <BxxKM0.H4r@unx.sas.com>
- Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group
- Lines: 16
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- sasjaa@morticia.unx.sas.com (James Adams) writes:
-
- >
- > If a program quits working, first try re-compiling it. It probably just
- > needs to be refreshed...
-
- That actually works! I downloaded a program from a BBS, (in C source
- format) and compiled it. It worked. A week later it started giving me
- weird errors; so I deleted it and recompiled it from the source. It
- worked. Software rot, I guess..
-
- -- "Xyzzy T. Plugh" mertwig!xyzzy@jaflrn.uucp
- Amateur radio callsign pending
- Daniel Max P. Drucker, the 14 year old networks wizard.
-
- "Difficulty! It's the single simplest machine in the entire Universe!" -HHGTTG
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