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From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: cpp symbol for multimax
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Date: 3 Oct 90 15:48:20 GMT
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In article <AGLEW.90Oct2170036@dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu>,
aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes:
|>(2) All of these symbols, sun, sequent, ns32032...
|>    should really have _s in front of their names,
|>    to avoid collisions with user variable names?
|>
|>    (Ever have to port a program dealing with solar power?)

I was quite surprised the first time I tried to compile the BSD
sources for lpr/lpd on a Sun.  Turns out that Berkeley declared the
sockaddr_un structure (for the Unix domain socket) to be called "sun".

Sigh.  I've complained before that these names should be in all
upper case or something (like maybe preceded with _), but no
one ever listens to me.  At this point, inertia is against us.

I think I'll start a computer manufacturing company and call it "index",
or maybe just "i".  :-)

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>