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How to find someone else who can't spell (either)

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	A maxim stolen from Mr. Scott of the Starship Enterprise:

		There is no tool so useless that NOTHING
		can be found for it to be used to fix.

	I've found one of those tools...in fact several.

	Thanx to the efforts of Jeff Bell (who did the phone list part
and maintains it for everybody), and another party I suspect wants to
remain blameless {thanks, Mike}, I've glued a paper clip and a bobby pin
together.

	There is now a tool called NAME to search the company phone list
for people whose names you know but spellings that are, like, AlIEn??

	If you put "$ NAME :== $UTL$EXE:NAME" (no quotes) in your LOGIN.COM,
next time you $RESTART or log in, you can say things like $NAME STEVE
and get STAFF as a match.  I don't want to use real examples, because
those people think we spell our names wierd.  'Scuse me, weird.

	It does not supplant the FONE command most of you have, cuz it doesn't
know about digits (you can't say $NAME 1710 and get anything useful; but
$FONE 1710 will tell you that's my number).  It can be customized to use
other phone lists, if you have similar problems with private lists, but
people who computerize their phone list tend to computerize their own
solutions.  See me if customizing this sounds useful to you.

sas
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Mar 13, 1991