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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Monkey (Re: Word 4.0 fractional widths still farcical (Grumble))
Message-ID: <883@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 30 Oct 89 14:55:15 GMT
References: <TJFS.89Oct26095508@tadtec.uucp> <1082@diemen.cc.utas.oz> <35975@apple.Apple.COM> <1083@diemen.cc.utas.oz> <1088@polari.UUCP>
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In-reply-to: 6sigma@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)

In article <1088@polari.UUCP>, 6sigma@polari (Brian Matthews) writes:
>In article <1083@diemen.cc.utas.oz> ben@tasis.utas.oz.au@munnari.oz (Ben Lian) writes:
>|In article <35975@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>|>Actually, from talking to people I know at Microsoft, that *have* a Desk
>|>Accessory called "monkey" that will type in random keystrokes and mouse
>|>movements. It is part of their testing procedure
>
>I don't know what Microsoft is using, but I have an ancient DA called
>Monkey that does this, so it wouldn't surprise me any if Microsoft has
>the same thing.

Probably their *only* testing procedure, given the quality of those
MicroSoft applications I've had to use....

In the case of Word, I bet they let it write the code as well....

		Nick.

(flame off... :-))
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick
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