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A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

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Sampling French customs...

A story told my sister by a work colleague...

A company he had worked for was sending source code decks of *cards* of large FORTRAN programs to a company in France. The programs would fail to compile (throwing all manner of errors) when they got there. Eventually, after several rounds of this, they sent a programmer carrying the box of cards. He was rather horrified when the French customs inspector decided to take a few of the cards from random places in the deck as "samples" to keep. did explain the problem, though.

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