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From: steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: formatting
Message-ID: <2645@basser.oz>
Date: 16 Oct 89 13:29:15 GMT
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Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <RANG.89Oct15155002@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>In article <2643@basser.oz> steve@basser.oz (Stephen Russell) writes:
>[ local reformatting makes patching difficult ].
>
>  The way to fix this is to have a smarter patch system.

True; a smarter "patch" program will help. The advantage of lwall's
program is it will patch any text file, so is language independent.
A language-dependent patch would lose this versatility, would need
to be extended for new languages, but would offer some advantages,
of course.