syatem command and dummy fields

[Fairlight]

Is it just me, or did Jay Ashworth say:
> 
> It will, but it will tie up an extra license.

Only on pre-5.6.  I thought that was one feature of the license manager in
5.6, that systeming off fP binaries didn't eat subsequent seats.  Am I
wrong in that memory?

> We wrote our menu programs in BASIC, they wrote batch files to call the
> apps after writing the parameters into... damn, I don't even remember
> the details.  I do recall we had one place that was 5 layers deep,
> though:
> 
> BASIC->BATCH->BASIC->BATCH->BASIC
> 
> I thought it extremely elegant at the time, but I was also, like 17.
> It was probably hackery of the worst order.  ;-)

I think we've all done that at some early point.  :)

Now, of course, I prefer to move any recursion inside the program.  :)

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