From: John Beckett 

"Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> If you were a REAL man you would have used debug. 

I've been trying to think of a clever comeback, but my time has
expired. Instead, I'll tell you my Debug story (a triumph!).

Almost ten years ago, I was doing a project for a company. There was
another guy who had written a comms app to connect a customer to the
company computer using a dial-up modem.

The company made money from services they sold to customers, not the
software. So, they took a bit of trouble getting everything just how people
wanted it.

One day I got a phone call from one of their people who was trying to
install the other guy's comms program at a site. The problem was that this
site needed pulse dialing, and the other guy assumed tone only (and the
other guy was not available).

I knew the person calling me was quite clever, although totally
nontechnical. Anyway, I got them (over the phone!) to use Debug to search
the exe file for "ATDT" and replace it with "ATDP".
There was shocked amazement when this worked!

John

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