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From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang)
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Subject: Re: formatting
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Date: 15 Oct 89 20:50:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: steve@basser.oz's message of 15 Oct 89 14:04:58 GMT

In article <2643@basser.oz> steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell) writes:
  [ in reference to a suggestion about always reformatting code ]

>[ ... ] Problem is that when some patches are posted, I'm in trouble.
>The fact that the author and I are not "actually LOOKING at the same
>code" makes patching next to impossible.

  The way to fix this is to have a smarter patch system.  After all,
indentation doesn't change the tokens in a Pascal program.  It
shouldn't be *too* hard to write a smarter patch program....
   
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