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- From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
- Subject: Re: African-American-top
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:03:18 GMT
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- [find-and-replace stories deleted]
-
- There is the apocryphal story, dated around the time when personal computers
- (and word processors) were still something of a novelty. A computer salesman
- (yes, it's a man in the story) was showing off the features of a word
- processor to some prospective customers, concentrating especially on those
- features not possible on a typewriter.
-
- Like the find-and-replace function.
-
- "Watch this. For example, I can change every occurence of 'm' in this
- document to, say, 'n'."
-
- A few keystrokes, and presto, every 'm' becomes an 'n'.
-
- "And now, watch as I change them back."
-
- Click, click, click, and all the 'n's become 'm's...including those that
- had been 'n's in the first place.
-
-
- -- | Simon Fraser University | SFU does not admit to having opinions of
- Keith Lim | Burnaby, B.C., V5A 1S6 | its own; any found above are mine only.
-
- "The problems of our entire society are of a sexual nature."
- --Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, Twin Peaks
-