Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: VMS Specific question about binary reads using fgetc Message-ID: <9OA4UF5@ficc.ferranti.com> Date: 28 Jun 90 11:42:19 GMT References: <2133@mindlink.UUCP> <.X94JD6@xds13.ferranti.com> <686@illini.osc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 19 The subject is: "#include stdio" in VAX C. I claim: > The existing syntax, "#include " was already perfectly well > suited for those semantics. In article <686@illini.osc.edu> djh@osc.edu (David Heisterberg) writes: > VMS often has include-like files in text libraries, and the VAX C > extension to #include takes advantage of that. They didn't need to create a new syntax for it. What I'm saying is that they should have made "#include " extract those files from those text libraries, thus making the new syntax redundant. > If you don't want to use it, > then don't. Who's putting a gun to your head? The people writing the code that I had to support. I don't know about you, but I don't have the advantage of programming in a vacuum. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.