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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.075307.21905@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan4.202944.7348@zoo.toronto.edu> <3461@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <1991Jan6.004313.8792@zoo.toronto.edu> <3463@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 1991 07:53:07 GMT

Sort of a postscript to my longer article posted a few minutes ago:

In article <3463@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>... However, if you post code that should be widely
>usable and it doesn't run on the most popular varients of Unix available...

I would note that the code in question, in both the original filesize-limit
discussion and the more general thread that has come out of it, without any
possible question *IS* widely usable.  The sheer number and variety of
systems running it establish that quite firmly.  There is no "should" about
it, despite our occasional unwillingness to accommodate others' bungling.
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