On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:25:48PM -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:

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(Those who don't get the reference, go find a short song called Alices Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie)

For sufficiently large versions of "short; the song is like, what, 14 minutes long?

short, it is not!

Closer to 45 minutes <grin>, I can still pick it. A verse is itself difficult, as it requires "finger-style" picking, but after the ump-teenth go'round, the hands start to lose track of where they are, due to the difficult repetition.

I don't think it's quite _that_ long... Our local album rock station used to play it up the back side of lunch hour every Thanksgiving day, and I don't remember that it broke the half hour...

It's like manually adding 1000 new Unix users. After the 200th one you start making mistakes becasue you get lost in the repetition. Just like playing this song, you are fried to a crisp when you're done.

No, Roeland, that's adding 1000 WinNT users. A Unix guy would just put the names in a file, and use expect(1L). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com