[mhuffman]

lol, this was the pre-Internet problem. It usually went like this...

>"Why would you want to do that?" because it seems like the right thing to do? Is there a better way.

>"What's this for?" the boss wants it

>"Did you try searching before asking such a stupid question?" I read the manual and thought about it a lot (remember this was pre-Internet)

so, there was a lot of "rough" hand-holding to learn the ropes for edge cases.