Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Elevators (was: Einstein (was: ambiguous))
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.235948.6660@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1159.25475CBB@urchin.fidonet.org> <11038@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 89 23:59:48 GMT

In article <11038@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
>But it also can't be programmed in C!!!!  ANSI says that the execution
>character set must include a carriage return, audible alarm (well --
>I guess an elevator has that), vertical tab (does an elevator have
>that?), horizontal tab, and a bunch of ASCII-like characters.  And
>you gotta have fseek().  Anyone want to design a C standard for a
>stand-alone environment, which ANSI forgot to do?

Please read the standard before you say such things.  This is a "free-
standing" implementation, which is *not* required to provide fseek()
and the like.  And while the various characters are still required to
exist in the character set, there is no requirement (in either hosted
or free-standing implementations) that any device capable of doing
anything useful with them be present.
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