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From: francis@mirror.UUCP (Joe Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Tail patches
Message-ID: <32982@mirror.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 19:44:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: mirror.32982
References: <5212@internal.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: francis@mirror.TMC.COM (Joe Francis)
Organization: Mirror Systems.  Cambridge, Mass.
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In article <5212@internal.Apple.COM> chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively) writes:
>Spare me, please.  I had only hoped to save some time/bandwidth by not 
>rehashing something that Macintosh Developer Technical Support (and 
>others) have said time and time again: don't tail patch; you'll break 
>things in ways that are far too subtle and bizarre to fully explain.  The 
>fact that I work at Apple may not confer 100% accuracy, but it IS my job 

<LARGE quantities of weird stuff about "burden of proof" deleted>

In the incredible ammount of space you used, you could have hinted at
some of these subtleties and truly done this newsgroup a service.  It
has been my experience that knowledge makes us all better programmers,
even if it is "forbidden" knowledge.

Go ahead Eve, feed us the APPLE.