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echo: power_bas
to: TIM HUTZLER
from: OLIVIER DAGENAIS
date: 1997-01-22 19:37:00
subject: Re: Compile to memory?

 TH> I asked a tech at PowerBASIC, and I got the sort of answer that
 TH> reminds of a joke I heard about the lost helicopter pilot somewhere
 TH> over foggy Seattle. The poor fella was flying around aimlessly unable
 TH> to see with half-mile visibility. He flew up to a large building and
 TH> held up a sign, "Where am I?" An office worker responded by
 TH> displaying his sign, "You are in a helicopter."
~f"QFX}brC? k!]:~HLqY"X7vq-TH> With that the pilot knew exactly where he was 
and flew directly to
 TH> SeaTAC airport. When the passenger asked him how he knew where he was
 TH> given the dumb response, he said, "I know it was the Microsoft
 TH> building when I got a technically correct but totally useless
 TH> answer." [grin]
 TH> ===
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