Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!bbn!apple!stearns
From: stearns@Apple.COM (Brian Stearns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: F/Da Mover question.  Never seen this before!
Message-ID: <301@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Dec 88 07:35:23 GMT
References: <6538@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <11414@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: Apple
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From article <6538@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>, by dorourke@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (David M. O'Rourke):
>   Would it be possible for you to change the code real quick and post a copy
> to comp.binaries.mac????

Several really great replies spring to mind, so here goes:

"Last time I 'changed the code real quick', we called it version 3.6!"
(turn and throw your mouse through the window behind you and pretend you're
 David Letterman)

or, how 'bout:

"I'd like to, David, but if I did, the Apple Source-Configuration Management
thugs would be on me like bugs on a system disk."

or maybe (my personal fave, with thanks to Ted Kaehler):

"Sorry, I can't. My neural network is down, and my agent is out sick 
with a virus."

Seriously, it'd be simpler to make the quick patches that Earle R. Horton
suggests in <11414@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>. Thanks, Earle; I was hoping that 
I could post the suggestion, and that some other enterprising soul would
figure out the actual changes and post them. Some would call this "laziness;"
here at Apple, we refer to this as a Third-Party Opportunity. 

"And always remember: if you must move fonts, please don't drink."

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Bryan Stearns                                            Apple Computer, Inc.
Macintosh Software Engineering             10500 North DeAnza Blvd, M/S 27-AK
stearns@apple.com                                         Cupertino, CA 95014
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