Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!sq!msb
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: C News patch of 7-Sep-1990
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.012701.27225@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <EMV.90Sep20173241@picasso.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Sep23.182243.24772@sq.sq.com> <1990Sep24.153619.27112@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 01:27:01 GMT
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>>> Ohio State way of naming the same files (900801 instead of 01-Aug-90)
>>> works much better that way.
>> No it doesn't, if they only use 2 digits for the year.  It merely
>> gets people *used* to lexical sorting giving date order, then blows up.
> Nah, we'll switch to hexadecimal when the top digit turns over. :-)

Oh yeah, what about EBCDIC machines? :-)

-- 
Mark Brader		   "I don't care HOW you format   char c; while ((c =
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	    getchar()) != EOF) putchar(c);   ... this code is a
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com    bug waiting to happen from the outset." --Doug Gwyn

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