RE: Did we have another name change? -- MIDRANGE-L

Ah heck, in that case you might as well just have it change AS/400 to
System i - seems like the only way we'll get the 2-years-from-retirement
people to change what they say.

On the other hand, the 30-years-from-retirement people like myself will
call it what it is.  I'm going to work on this machine until the wheels
fall off - and the wheels have already fallen off any system with AS/400
printed on the front.

--
Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i  
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Kahn
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:49 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Did we have another name change?

On 10/04/06, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Since I to write articles, I really wish they'd use an upper case 
> > letter for the first letter.  It's tough to constantly convince word

> > processors that you MEANT to leave the first letter of the sentence 
> > lower case.  Of course, "System i" with a standalone lower case "i" 
> > just confuses them mightily as well.
>
> AMEN!!  I keep saying stuff like this, and everyone ignores me.  It's 
> good to know that at least one person understands how horrible the 
> name "System i" is to try to use in an article!

You should be able to get auto-correction to work to your advantage
instead of against you. For example, set it to change occurrences of
"sysi" to "System i". Then just type "sysi" whenever you need it. You
still have the problem that the spill chucker doesn't like lower case
"i" of course. You can always add lower case "i" to your dictionary but
then you run the risk of referring to yourself as "i".

--
Dave...

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