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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
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Date: 5 Jan 91 20:50:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jan4.202944.7348@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>This is under discussion for other reasons, actually.  However, as far as
>I'm concerned, if it helps with this issue, that is strictly accidental.
>I balk at massive contortions in our code to work around system bugs
>like this.

Better be careful, Henry. If you don't cope with flaws in the systems 
you run on, you may find that the code you write won't run at all.

Someone just recently pointed out that GNU grep 1.5 has a bug in it
that is ticked by Pnews. Not only do you have to watch out for bugs in the
OS, but you have to watch for bugs in various basic utilities, too.

To take the ivory tower attitude that the end-user should get the OS fixed
it commendable, but not always reasonable.


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