Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!umn-d-ub!cs.umn.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!news From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Is it time for comp.lang.c.dos? Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 19:11:06 GMT References: <1990Mar29.224413.21552@xenitec.on.ca> <23623@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: usa Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 22 Chris Torek wrote: > There is, however, a `rule of thumb' that applies in cases like > this: start with the smallest newsgroup that might apply. In this > case, it would probably be an Amiga-specific group. Well, for the example I gave, the smallest applicable newsgroup by volume is probably gnu.gcc. comp.sys.amiga.tech is only marginally smaller than comp.lang.c, and comp.sys.amiga is a couple times larger. If you mean smallest category, then gnu.gcc still wins. `Amiga' is no smaller than `C', but `GNU cc' is a relatively tiny category. If you mean smallest distribution, then something like utah.test, if there exists such a beast. If you mean smallest chance of a good answer, then how about rec.pets? (The neighbors have both a cat and a dog.) And if the problem really is a defect in my understanding of malloc(), then comp.lang.c is the best newsgroup to ask. -- Felix Lee flee@shire.cs.psu.edu *!psuvax1!flee