RE: is this a hint or what?

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

LOL - that is an AWESOME idea Dan !

Reminds me of a time long ago at my previous employer. We had a consultant
in "teaching" a junior programmer and I think she actually knew more than he
did. We had this program (that was rolling around the AS/400) that would let
you interactively write to a 5250 screen. You had to specify a break
handling program but that wasn't a problem since everyone in IS used a
single INLPGM. We had various versions of this CL that wished folks happy
birthday, etc. We also had on that "ate" the screen one character at a time
or just ate the center.

So we invoked this while he was teaching her and commented to her that it
was "something atmospheric" !

And of course the next rendition crawled "A T M O S P H E R I C" across the
screen ;-)

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Bale
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 8:16 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: is this a hint or what?


Maybe IBM ought to display a message upon creating a new RPG (not RPGLE)
member:

"Are you nuts?!?!? Please drag yourself, loincloth and all, into the 21st
century NOW!"

Boy, the fun we could have monkeying with IBM's messages!

db