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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: standard unix graphics package
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Date: 14 Oct 89 23:45:35 GMT
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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)

In article <401@longway.TIC.COM>, gwyn@BRL.MIL quotes someone:
> >1) my code be written in C
> >2) the use of graphics
> >3) that the final version be
> >    a) UNIX-based
> >    b) portable to ALL UNIX SYSTEMS

and then says ..

> Wow, taken literally this would be EXTREMELY TOUGH.

No, taken literally, this would be very easy.  Written in
C is no problem.  Unix based is no problem, portable to
all unix systems is easy if the result is simple enough.

Graphics seems to be the complication, but remember, that "literally"
characters are graphics, so why not try submitting ...

	main()
	{
		printf("Hello world\n");
	}

which I believe literally meets all the (stated) requirements.

kre

Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 32