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    Interview the person beneath you

    A: Wow, if the reference list I checked after I spun thru' the list in my head is correct, I only got three. I suck. Q: Do you think antibacterial soaps are causing too many bacteria and viruses to mutate too quickly, thus causing more (and possibly worse) sicknesses and infections for Man...
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    Pismo for sale

    What's a pismo ?
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    Help with text file processing

    No problem. I looked thru' the data and (grmble, grumble) some of the phone numbers are in the format (xxx) xxx-xxxx and some are in xxx-xxx-xxxx. Some have one, some have 2, some have none. Well, it'll be fun :)
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    Interview the person beneath you

    A: I believe there can't not be. To clarify, I won't say "yes there is", but I just can't see how there couldn't be. Q: If you had a chance to take a one-way trip, no return, to see this intelligent life... would you?
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    Telling tar not to traverse mount-points ?

    tar has an "--exclude" option, you can stack as many of them as you want on the command line.
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    setenv DISPLAY

    Wow. And I've been "export DISPLAY=xxxxxx" manually each time. Thanks for the tip.
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    What goes around...

    ChemGeek... 'zactly! I don't believe that karma is tied to mystical forces, but rather the typical societal scuttlebutt that gets around. Well stated.
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    Help with text file processing

    Exactly. This would take either plenty of manual time or it would take some *good* work with regular expressions to pre-clean the data. I'd be glad to take a crack at it if you want to send me the file. chris at chornbe dot com If you're worried about the privacy and would rather not, I...
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    Help with text file processing

    So we can assume that there is some non-headered value for the name, then a headered value "E-mail:" as the last line of a record. Is that consistent among all the records. Do all the records have the same number of lines, same order, same "white space" lines between them, etc? For instance...
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