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I suggest that you re-write your problematic example:
"These disparate software packages do not interwork among themselves"
as the following:
"These disparate software packages do not interact with one another."
Live long & prosper,
Mike LaTorra
Documentation Supervisor
Accugraph Inc.
mikel -at- accugraph -dot- com
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The opinions expressed are my own, ][ "Politics is the business of
and not necessarily those of my ][ getting power and privilege
company -- but they probably ][ without possessing merit."
should be. ][ -- P.J. O'Rourke
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