Grant Edwards wrote:

...

> Yup, "real" questions (even rather confused ones) on specific
> topics are always welcome -- though more so on newsgroups and
> mailing lists than via private e-mail. I usually try to point
> them towards an appropriate forum and then answer the question
> there (if I can).

I like it when the questions come early enough for the answers to be of
possible use. We got to know Julius Kusuma when he was a senior at
Purdue. It was clear then that he could think (and nobody here ever said
"I told you so!"

Jerry
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Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.
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