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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: does the ansi spec say anything about cc(1)
Message-ID: <1989Sep8.064505.4314@twwells.com>
Date: 8 Sep 89 06:45:05 GMT
References: <4544@hall.cray.com> <1989Sep5.225807.1486@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1989Sep5.225807.1486@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
: In article <4544@hall.cray.com> rosenkra@hall.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
: >like "standard" commandline switches, output file names, etc. seems like
: >this could be interpreted as "part of the language"...
:
: There may well be C implementations on machines like the Mac, designed for
: illiterates, in which there is no notion of a "command line" or a "file
: name" at all.

Not "may well be". Are. And this caused us real headaches since our
normal way of shipping code had our customers configure it by using
-D.... or the equivalent.

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