From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17960 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Zander Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: need advice from the master Date: 19 Oct 1998 17:17:26 -0700 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87u310nl2h.fsf@wsfs05.mckesson.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156567 3600 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:29:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09709 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:16:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB21925; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:16:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:16:02 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA23688 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:15:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from fwprv01.mckesson.com (info.mckesson.com [208.147.67.129]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA09501 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:15:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from fwprv by fwprv01.mckesson.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA08111; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:15:15 -0700 Original-Received: from srz by wsfs05.mckesson.com with local (Exim 2.04 #1 (Debian)) id 0zVPUM-00073G-00; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 17:17:26 -0700 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Organisation: speaking through, but not for, McKesson Corp In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "17 Oct 1998 23:53:24 +0200" Original-Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.42/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17960 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17960 >>>>> "Lars" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Lars> It's very, very, very simple. I have one of those bar-code Lars> reader thingies that I've increased the current on, and I've Lars> attached it to the fan in the ceiling, and it scans Lars> everything that's in the general couch area. If it sees Lars> something that looks vaguely like a book, it scans it, OCR's Lars> the cover, and then tells Emacs about it. Lars> Couldn't be simpler. Please, God, don't ever let this man work for Microsoft! :) -- Stephen --- Perl is really designed more for the guys that will hack Perl at least 20 minutes a day for the rest of their career. TCL/Python is more a "20 minutes a week", and VB is probably in that "20 minutes a month" group. :) -- Randal Schwartz