>>>>- The Alaska Software .MSI ( http://www.alaska-software.com/fixes/smb2/overview.shtm ) "allegedly" fixes SMB 2.0+ so VFP and other file-server databases work reliably
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>>>So, allegedly or "allegedly"? You're confusing me. Specially as putting quotes around a word is pretty much equivalent to saying it's not really so, or is, ahem, allegedly so.
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>>>http://radian.org/notebook/quote-unquote
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>>It's my shorthand for 3rd-hand hearsay, rather than 2nd-hand. Think nesting, rather than negation ;)
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>Third hand? You've got more arms that standard human who has two arms with hands on the end.

see The Mote in God's Eye for such a layout ("the gripping hand..")