When We're 6.4

by Alan Manifold

19 September 1996

(to the tune of When I'm Sixty-Four)

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When I'm all finished tearing my hair
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	Many months from now,

Will you still be running to your fax machine
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	Working on the problems I've seen?

Will you still issue trouble reports
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	To me by the score?
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Will you still call me, will you stonewall me
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	When we're 6-point-4?

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Mmmm--mmm--mmm
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We'll be stabilized.
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Aaaahh
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And when you give the word, we'll do 6-point-5.

I have reported dozens of bugs
	When our system's down,
You have called me daily with the latest news
	Staving off my new release blues;
Tracing an abend, reading a dump,
	Who could ask for more?
Will you still call me, will you stonewall me
	When we're 6-point-4?

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Every summer we can plan to start the cycle through again with a new release;
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'Till the install's done.
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Aaaahh
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And then we can install X-point-Y-point-1.

Send me some e-mail, fax me a fax,
	With the fix I need
Indicate precisely what the fix will be,
	Don't just say it's fixed in 6.3;
Keep giving answers and fixing bugs
	For a few months more.
Will you still call me, will you stonewall me
	When we're 6-point-4?