Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!tub!uwbln!ckl From: ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Healthy skepticism towards documentation Message-ID: <1823@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 89 19:37:28 GMT References: <10817@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <10990@smoke.BRL.MIL> <11031@smoke.BRL.MIL> Distribution: comp Organization: UniWare GmbH, Berlin Lines: 23 In article <11031@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: > In article <1813@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP> ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel) writes: > >6. remember, what was in v6. fna ? do i really need it ? fi > > I'm curious why this is a factor. Surely any site running 6th Edition > UNIX should have acquired a license upgrade, then the BRL/JHU version > of UNIX, 2.nBSD, or some similar modernized version? its simply cause my expirience is that those things that were present in v6 still work on what unix variant soever. this very year i had to port software to computers which did not handle struct assignements, bitfields and void pointers. i'm afraid our customers dont like me to tell them, well, go get your svr2 emulation and call me again! :-) christoph ps: no we dont have customers running 6th edition... -- # include Christoph Kuenkel/UniWare GmbH Kantstr. 152, 1000 Berlin 12, West Germany ck@tub.BITNET ckl@uwbln {unido,tmpmbx,tub}!uwbln!ckl