Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hsi!stpstn!lerman
From: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: more on TRUE and FALSE (side-comment)
Keywords: C improved
Message-ID: <5625@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 90 13:19:55 GMT
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Reply-To: lerman@stpstn.UUCP (Ken Lerman)
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In article <18306@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
[...]
->
->I'm reminded of a note in a Fortran manual: if you find you've already punched
->your program and misspelled the variable CHIEF as CHEIF on a lot of the cards,
->you can fix it with EQUIVALENCE(CHEIF,CHIEF).
->
->Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint
->________
[...]

Ugh, a ghastly solution.  The right way is to get some scotch (brand)
tape and some punchings and tape the "bits" back in the holes.  (You
may laugh, but I've seen people actually do this.  With binary
(encoded) cards, no less.)

Ken