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Jan 28, 2013
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Please hold your head perfectly still while you write up that memo

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I dreamed that the original Volkswagen Beetle factory was so cramped that the office workers had to move their desks to the factory floor, with heavy equipment swinging around just inches from their faces. To prevent serious injuries, a template passed through every so often to make sure nothing was out of place.

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Jan 28, 2013
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Finding a printer, and then creating a shortcut to that printer

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Today's "Little Program" does two things: It looks for a printer in the Printers folder, and then once it finds it, it creates a shortcut to that printer. As is common with "Little Programs", I don't bother with error checking. I'll leave you to do that. Second part first, since it is handy on its own: Creating a shortcut to an arbitrary item ...

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