On 25 Jan 06  16:48:00, James Bradley got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: BW help

 DC> We may have been much farther ahead had not Archimedes works
 DC> been lost.

 JB> I think that was up for debate, wasn't it? Sure we saw a real lull in
 JB> the action following his death, but the speculation to what he was
 JB> working on - even optimistically - was not terribly advanced beyond his
 JB> day. This is only what I recall from years ago contained on a PBS show.
 JB>  

He was using calculus.  

 DC> Scot, not Scott!

 JB> YIKES! It being Robby Burns Day, no less. I'll likely get a haggis fly
 JB> through my front window. 

Ah, stuffed sheep guts!  

 JB> the other always had to receive. 
 JB> Do you mean "Eli"?
 DC> That's what I wrote...  (furious editing)  See:

 JB> 
 
 
 DC> ... Eli Whitney discovered that gin could be made from cotton.

 JB> Maybe I just need glasses. 

The  command works well!   




... C:\WINDOWS>DEL *.*  I feel better now!
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