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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 6.0
Keywords: MSC6.0
Message-ID: <2857@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 8 May 90 20:51:53 GMT
References: <1838@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <3697@csccat.UUCP>
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge MA
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In article <3697@csccat.UUCP>, jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler) writes:
| In article <1838@bnlux0.bnl.gov> cpa@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Chris Armstrong) writes:
| >
| >Believe
| >it or not some people (me!) don't like having loads of unwanted files left
| >on their hard disk.  Getting rid of unwanted files occasionally results in
| >accidental deletions.... and I'd like to be able to get the new mouse
| >driver off for when I am booted up under DOS.
| 
| C'mon, you mean you can't figure out which ones you don't want.

	When I installed 5.1, one of the ones *I* didn't want was "rm."
Trouble was, before the install procedure I used to have an "rm" that
I did want...

| >I've found my first problem with 6.0 (apart from NULL no longer being NULL,
| >and zillions of long/short mismatch warnings being produced by char/int
| >conversions for the first time). 
| 
| Last time I looks a char was 1 byte and a short(int in your case) was 
| 2 bytes. 
| If you ever get to the UNIX world you'll find another surprize. int's 
| are 4 bytes. Sounds like this is the case for 2.0.

	Gee, my pdp-11s have 16-bit ints and they claim to be running
unix.  I guess they must be lying.

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*