Re: Bug or just having fun in Word

["Hellman, Henrik" <Henrik.Hellman () SCALA SE>]

I learnt loooong ago this was a sentence to test old tty's wich were
mechanical typwriters, the ascii code was only 5 bits and to be able to
print all chars' there were two modes, one upper and one lower and you sent
a special character to switch between these modes. "The lazy fox..." was an
extrem sentence as it made the tty switch between these modes for almost
every character. Heavy stuff since these tty's worked at 75 baud or even at
the minddazzling 150 baud... :) My friend also used to play Jinglebells with
the bell sign, if you were tonedeaf you liked it.... :)
/hh
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Henrik Hellman
Scala Global IT Security Executive
Scala Global IT Team
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Goltz [mailto:goltz () NFR COM]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 2:55 PM
To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
Subject: Re: Bug or just having fun in Word


>       > = rand (200,99)

> I would guess that this is probably a left-over from the initial testing
and
> debugging.

"How to Insert Sample Text into a Document"
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q157/3/73.asp

Given that Microsoft documents it (albeit obscurely), I seriously doubt that
they are paying anyone to tell them how and why it works.

What I want to know is, why does everyone always type "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog" (34 letters) and not "Jackdaws love my big sphinx
of quartz" (30) or even "Glyphs cwm fjord-bank vext quiz" (26 letters)?

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Jim Goltz                                                Senior Systems
Manager
goltz () nfr com                                            NFR Security, Inc.