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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW 3 - why bother?
Message-ID: <48031@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 91 21:55:59 GMT
References: <47967@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Jan10.222325.2753@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> <1991Jan13.112728.13613@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Jan13.112728.13613@chinet.chi.il.us> laird@chinet.chi.il.us (Laird J. Heal) writes:

>There was not anything like \p for strings, though.  Converting all of
>the string-converting calls is a straightforward, mechanical, onerous
>and non-trivial task;  I only did it once, in 1985 I think.]
>

Well, another reason to switch to MPW 3(.2). The relase has a streamedit tool
(sed style tool for you UNIX freaks) for mechanical editing of source code.

Regards,
Kent Sandvik


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