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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: Portable C & shars (Was Re: compress - tar - uuencode)
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Date: 13 Jul 90 13:09:34 GMT
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In article <9007121205.AA07748@jade.berkeley.edu> lwv27@cas.BITNET writes:

 >2.      You must NEVER use curley brackets.  Instead, you will need to require
 >        the user to use ANSI C and then code all of your C using trigraphs.
 >
 >        Of course, if you needed the brackets in a SHELL or other language,
 >        I guess you are out of luck.
 >
 >        Reason: some sites translate the curley bracket into a square bracket -
 >        but leave the square brackets alone.


Don't use curly braces in a C program?  Get real.  If the BITNET folks want
to participate in USENET, perhaps they should fix their transport software to
not muck the data, or at least make the translations invertable.


louie