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Subject: Function 37
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Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 02:03:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 18 02:03:00 1984
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From:  Jerry E. Pournelle 

godalmighty dam.  i gather that anything short of perfection is
to be avoided; that if one cannot explain what's happening in a
hurricane you shouldn't warn anyone that it is coming.

your analysis is insteresting, but I do not know how to "change"
a hard disk, and I can assure you that fn 37 has managed to
write garbage all over the directory in two different hard disk
systems. by your logic I should not warn anyone about that since
I don't know why it does that.

i followed the discussion with some interest; reseting the write
vector seems to be the REAL name of the fn 37.  I hadn't known
that when I wrote my piece; indeed, i put the note about 37 on
the net at the same time that I turned in the article.

holy catfish