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Had that happen to me recently.
Ex contractor left only postscript versions of a manual. Left lots of copies
with slightly different file dates, and lots of zip files containing
postscript dumps, but no source files.
I called him, asked if they were on one of the file servers or something. He
suggested I rename the .PS files to .DOC. As I suspected, that didn't work.
(There is exactly one way it could have worked: the .PS files might have
been .DOC files that had been renamed for some bizarre reason. They
weren't.)
He will never work for any company where my opinion counts.
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Office:
mike -dot- huber -at- software -dot- rockwell -dot- com
Home:
nax -at- execpc -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Kieffer [SMTP:barry -dot- kieffer -at- EXGATE -dot- TEK -dot- COM]
...
> I hope I *never* have the mis-opportunely to take over from some lunatic
> who
> believes that the content they created and the "old files" were their
> personal property and shred, delete, reformat, hide, and pull some
> branches
> over the floor to hide any trace that they were ever there!
>
