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In article <1990Feb2.0...@cs.rochester.edu>, k...@cs.rochester.edu (Ken
Yap) writes:
> I was once working on a Perkin-Elmer 3200 running Fortran and little
> else.  Somewhere in my program was a small typo.  What do you do when
> you don't have diff handy? Software Tools, you say. Well that was
> exactly what I was trying to get working on this machine.
> 
> The solution I came up with was to take the correct printout, overlay
> it with the suspect printout, align the letters and hold both against
> the light.  It worked.

	We had a really suspicious lecturer in college who used to take the printouts
which we had handed in as assignments and hold them up to the light in batches,
looking for programs which were the same.

	He obviously didn't realize that the Pascal (well it was designed as a
teaching language!) `prettier' which we had available allowed you to customize
the indentation etc., though we cottoned on pretty quickly. A global replace on
a few variable names also defeated his system.

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