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From: Bill Dale <william.dale.jr@lmco.com>
Subject: Re: UNIX Compressed Files From A PC
Date: 2000/08/15
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"Marin D. Condic" wrote:
> 
> E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
> 
> > I still think that you've been given a little test and you're failing badly.
> >
> What part of "I can't guarantee that the file will be on UNIX" are you
> not hearing? What part of "Its a political issue - not a technical
> issue" is not getting through here? I really don't see how much more
> plain I can make it. I keep saying that the answer *MUST BE* one that is
> built into the program and can't be any sort of shell script or
> temporary file or pipe anything of the sort. Yet you keep coming back
> with that response. Are you just trying to bait me?
> 

[snip]

I don't think your chain is being jerked but political requirements need
to be dealt with politically.

Show the customer the technical risks and give him a cost and schedule
for doing it his way.  The more ridiculous the better.  Then give him
the right way to do it.  Otherwise - walk away.   Most of the time,
management will not learn even when they keep hitting their head against
the wall -- but it is amusing to see from the outside.

Not speacking for LM,SSO but just for myself ...

William L. Dale
"If we spend all of our time in ADM's talking about TLA's we'll be SOL!"
Lockheed Martin, Space Systems Company,
Missiles & Space -Sunnyvale Operations
mailto:william.dale.jr@lmco.com