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Old 04-10-2007, 04:10 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren Nick Maclaren is offline
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Default Can I design something that will be useful while gardening?


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David in Normandy writes:
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| Getting way off topic now, but I once wrote a very large JCL program to
| monitor and regulate the system, run various jobs, backups, reports etc.
| I even gave it it's own username space to run in "Marvin". It would
| monitor and log off idle users and send messages to appropriate people
| saying printers had run out of paper etc. It got quite chatty with one
| user one day and they phoned up the I.T. dept asking to speak to Marvin
| :-)

You should have said that he had eloped with Eliza :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.