finding out how many fields

[Fairlight]

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:21:07AM -0400, John Esak, the prominent pundit,
witicized:
> >
> > True enough, but I consider this community the prime resource for fP
> > questions.  fP question?  This is the first place that pops into my head
> > after the manual, which brings us back to the catch-22.
> 
> Excuuuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeeeee....! <sung to the tune of Steve Martin...>
> 
> The first thing that pops into your head, eh? How about:
> 
>     Visit The FP Room www.tinyurlcom/yuag7 24/7
[snip]
> I am wounded to the core...

*bandage, bandage*  Oh, you said to the core.  Hmm.  *packs wound*  Sorry,
I'm a lousy field medic.  :)

Now now...my -initial- draft said "I consider this list the prime resource"
and I changed 'list' to 'community' for -precisely- that reason--because I
consider it an extension of the -community-, since it's really a cross-over
sort of thing--mostly the same people, different medium.

No lie, I originally drafted it that way, and then revised it precisely
to be -in-clusive!  You'll have to take my word for it, but I'll swear on
my entire Duran Duran CD collection that it's true.  Not something I'd do
lightly, as anyone that knows me well should well know.  :)

> (Any chance for a plug, huh? :-) )

No doubt...geez.  :)  You vampire!  :)

> Truth be told, I certainly check this list before I login to the room each
> morning... (and throughout the day) ...  and as you know so well, you could
> have had that answer in a billionth of a second in the room... and spared
> yourself the RTFM chidings and jests of the rabble.

True, but I've been on and off the phone all day a lot lately.  Phone and
headset don't mix very well--I start feeling like I'm wired for an EKG.
I still need to plug in the new headset...my current one's cable is screwy.

And I can take some chidings...they go on top the sour cream on the baked
potato, don't they?  :)

Hmmm.  Thinking about that makemenu.hlp->man page converter someone asked
for.  The man pages aren't a big issue.  After having looked over a few and
looked at the macro man page, that's the easy part.  I'm still trying to
decipher the syntax->functionality of the help files.  Maybe I should check
the tech specs and see if it's documented.  Even if it's not, how hard
could it be?  It's a job that practically screams for perl.  That's the
kind of thing it was designed to do in the first place.

I'll see if I can do it in my Copious Spare Time[tm].

mark->
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