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- From: chess@watson.ibm.com (David M. Chess)
- Subject: "Hack", and RTF
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:47:44 GMT
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- In the song "Cocaine Blues" (George Thorogood and the Destroyers etc),
- there's a line "You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down".
- An interesting use of "hack"; does anyone know the connotation of
- this usage, and/or what liguistic community uses it this way?
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- Hack: a REXX program to translate a small subset (really small;
- eensty-beentsy in fact) of GML into Microsoft RTF, so the Windows
- help compiler would accept it. It was a hack primarily because I
- have no documentation on RTF format, and had to wing it by reading
- some RTF files and extrapolating. (Does anyone know if there
- *is* any documentation on RTF format? My doc collection in that
- area is minimal.)
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