variable lookups possible?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 05:17:21PM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> P.S. - Quick funny... when I was doing The Guru Magazine, one of the first
> articles we did was a quick tutorial on VI. Then we did another longer, and
> another, etc. One day a few issues in, a guy calls on the phone. He says
> (and I swear I'm not making this up...) How can I get a copy of this 6
> thing? I didn't understand him so I asked him to say it again. He did, ut I
> still didn't get what he was after. I asked him to spell it... and he said
> 6, you know like Roman Numeral VI. I nearly fell out of my chair laughing...
> After I composed myself, I calmly told him that it was "v" "i" not 6 that he
> wanted and it came free on his operating system. He thanked me and hung up.
> I think I called everyone I knew at the time to tell them that one... :-)

(to quote the people at Linux user group meetings who see my license tag)

"Oh, so *you're* the bastard..."

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/V/vi.html

Cheers,
-- jr 'I was wondering where that came from...' a
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