Re: pcAnywhere 9.0

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One day I get a call from a user.  Her mouse is acting up.  I go
over to her PC and everything is fine.  *shrug*  As I'm going 
back to my office I see one of my operators chuckling, and see he
has the other user's screen on his PC.

I watch, and ever minute or so, he would wiggle the mouse, he had
PC Anywhere 9.0 running to her PC.  She would bang the mouse on the
table to try to "fix" it and mutter.  Then everything would seem to
be okay for her, until a minute later when he would move the mouse
again.  *BANG*  *BANG*  *mutter*

Another time, get a call from a user her screen is shaking.  Shaking?
I go look, it is fine.  She says well, it was. *shrug*  I get a call
again, I have my operator go look at it.  He sees it's fine, but as
he's walking away he sees the user in the cubicle next to her turn
back on the fan on his desk that's against the cubicle wall he monitor
is on.  It's doing it again!  He runs over, the user turns the fan 
back off.

Regards,

Jim Langston


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Chuck Lewis [SMTP:clewis@iquest.net]
        Sent:   Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:35 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: pcAnywhere 9.0

        You can find stuff to break the boredom !

        This is really getting off topic, but YEARS ago we had figured out
hot to write
        interactively to a screen when it was not general knowledge. We had
a guy in doing some
        training with a junior programer and he was another know it all (we
were NOT mean, I'm
        sure you understand the type of person I mean. There are very
knowledgeable folks that
        don't act like it, are helpful and share, and don't flaunt it in
your face - the ones I
        call know it all's are NOT like this...).

        So we wrote a program to "eat" the screen that was up (no matter
what screen) character
        by character (could of course to a whole line). The junior
programmer had been tipped
        off and she excused herself and came to us and said "You're not
gonna BELIEVE this but
        the dude said it must have been something atmospheric !!" !!!

        We about died, and then changed so that after it "ate" the screen,
it popped up the word
        A  T  M  O  S  P  H  E  R  I  C... Unfortunately that was intended
for the next day and
        he never came back...

        Chuck

        Jeff Crosby wrote:
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