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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: telnet in a shell script
Message-ID: <9557:Nov2004:31:5290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 90 04:31:52 GMT
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In article <13064@vpk1.UUCP> craig@vpk1.ATT.COM (Craig Campbell) writes:
> In article <7006:Nov1408:13:3290@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> > Here waitfor is a dumb program along the lines of
    [ seven-plus packed lines of C code ]
> I'm suprised that you would post code to the net looking like that!!
> (Actually, I'm suprised anyone would write code that looked like that.)
> Why did you do that?

Why did I do that? Because I try to save the reader's time. Most readers
do not want to wade through fifty lines of beautifully formatted code
just to see the rest of the article; they'll accept that the blob of C
does the job I say it does, and inspect an indented version at their
leisure if they want to invest more time.

Putting a nicely formatted C program into the middle of a posting when
it is not directly relevant to the thread is not polite.

---Dan