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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: THINK C bug??
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Date: 2 Sep 89 15:45:16 GMT
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In article <227700039@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jpd00964@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>BTW- Rich, where is this "side effect" (bug to the rest of us) documented?
>It's not in the tutorial about projects, and I cannot find it in the overview.
>I've also skimmed through the entire chapter devoted to setting up projects,
>and they say that you only need a folder.  I cannot find where your lovely
>"side effect" (still bug and becomming undocumented feature for the rest of us).

	[As he bravely suppresses the urge to post an obnoxious response
to an obnoxious question...]

	The entire tree scheme is described in excruciating detail in
chapter 9 of the THINK C User's Manual: "Files & Folders". It begins on
page 105 and ends on page 109.

	In particular, the duplicate-file issue is described on page
108, fifth paragraph from the top of the page: "Avoid Duplicate file
names in trees":

	"Just as you can't have two files with the same name in the same
folder, you shouldn't have duplicate file names in different folders
within the project or THINK C tree. If you do, THINK C won't know
which file to use. Duplicate file names won't lead to any explicit errors,
but you may end up using the wrong file."

	Note that if you want to know exactly where a file resides, you
can choose "Full Titles" from the Windows menu.

	[The chapters and page numbers I'm quoting are from the version 3.0
user's manual; the numbers will be different in the 4.0 manual, but the
contents and names are the same.]

		R.


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