Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: VMS Specific question about binary reads using fgetc Message-ID: <1990Jun28.170718.6651@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <2133@mindlink.UUCP> <.X94JD6@xds13.ferranti.com> <686@illini.osc.edu> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 17:07:18 GMT In article <686@illini.osc.edu> djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes: >> The existing syntax, "#include " was already perfectly well >> suited for those semantics. > >Then use it. It works just fine. I don't understand what you're complaining >about. VMS often has include-like files in text libraries, and the VAX C >extension to #include takes advantage of that. If you don't want to use it, >then don't. Who's putting a gun to your head? Does the word "portability" mean anything to you? How about "many wasted man-months trying to port software written by clever people who think it's cute to use VMS-specific language features"? We don't want *you* to use it either, because someday we may have to port or maintain your code. -- "Either NFS must be scrapped or NFS | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology must be changed." -John Osterhout | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry