In <41D49BB880304E6097580F2D7D322768@ericnbPC>, on 04/02/2011
at 11:53 AM, Eric Bielefeld <[email protected]> said:
>I usually delete all superfluous text when I reply, but left it all
>in for this message to make my point. There are at least 5 of the
>thingies that the listserver adds (maybe more), plus the one added
>by the quoted message, plus the one that will be added by my
>message. PLEASE delete the irrelevant messages and all of the
>IBM-Main added text.
Internet conventions call for starting with an attribution line,
quoting relevant text with a ">" prefix on every line and not quoting
signatures. Some e-mail software makes it easier to follow those
rules. However, in the case of IBM-MAIN the lines automatically added
at the end do not include a sig delimiter line ("-- "), preventing
e-mail clients from automatically dropping them from replies. So part
of the problem is in the listserv rather than just the individual
posters.
>I have to admit I had no idea what Ron Hawkins was talking about in
>his reply. He said he was 033x. What is that?
A fixed point value of 51.
>Now, if he said X'0033', that makes sense.
They both make sense, just not in the same programming language. For
that matter, so does '0033'X, which is a string rather than a number.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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