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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The future of MINIX
Message-ID: <2851@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 10 Jul 89 09:38:03 GMT
References: <2835@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1989Jul8.171336.27399@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <1989Jul8.171336.27399@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin) writes:
>I realize that with 900 pages it is hard to figure out what to cut and
>what not to cut.  But, the cross reference listing is VERY handy.  

How about this.  I could grep the listing in the book for PRIVATE and PUBLIC
and just give an alphabetical list of those lines, 3 or 4 columns per page.
That way you could find where symbols are defined, which I think is more
useful than the reverse.  Conceivably I could also make a full cross
reference list and put in on the disk.  Making that list, incidentally, was
a gigantic pain in the rear end.  It was surprisingly difficult to automate.

Andy Tanenbaum