Invisible wrote:
> I'm still trying to think of any software that's capable of producing 
> such files. (And, therefore, where the hell this person even found those 
> names from...)

Excel? Pretty much every program that exports tabular data can do it with 
tabs, and most UNIXy programs wind up putting pipes in when necessary. 
(Basically, systems that generated tabular data intended to go over the 
internet as email before the abomination of using XML for that became common 
has an option to use pipes.)

> There's no possibility of that. I'm personally going there anyway, so...

So she was asking if she should bring it so you can sign it there, or 
whether you're going home first. Seems easy.

>> You're not even spelling it consistently, so who are you to argue? ;-)
> 
> *gasp* You mean some guy who was sent to a school for people with 
> learning difficulties due to his total inability to read and write 
> actually spelt something wrong? GIVE ME A ****ING BREAK! It's old, OK? I 
> can't spell. We get it. Can we please move on now?

It just makes it hard to look up what the question is when you don't spell 
the critical word right, is all. :-)  If he was actually asking how to 
convert volts to seimands, yes, it would be silly. :-)

> As I say, this is the least-silly question I got asked. It's more in the 
> relm of "dude, that's really quite random" than "that's a stupid thing 
> to ask".

And my point is that there's almost no question that's a stupid thing to 
ask. There's only literal interpretation of questions that someone is asking 
without enough information to know what question they should be asking. If 
you think a question is stupid, it's because you already know the answer. So 
give it to them. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Eiffel - The language that lets you specify exactly
    that the code does what you think it does, even if
    it doesn't do what you wanted.

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