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echo: locuser
to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-06-29 11:11:32
subject: Funny characters

FM> What about the latest program you or your colleagues wrote at work?

PE> Yes.  If you have a problem, and I respond with "CVCHG fixes that",

RS> Massive faking, clearly its not vaporware.

PE> It is, it's not available to the world as a solution to ANY problem.

RS> Thats not what the definition of vaporware is. Soorree.

RS> Just like the software to run your submarines, it wont be
RS> FREQable or buyable in a shop, it wont be vapourware tho.

Yes it will, if I try to pass it off as a solution to a general problem. 
Although you probably will be able to buy that, anyway. You probably can't
buy the weapons stuff though, which makes it vapourware if I try passing it
off as better than XYZ weapons controller.  For all practical purposes, it
doesn't exist.

BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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