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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Why has Digital $ in their headerfiles in ultrix?
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.042230.4789@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 04:22:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.152619.2771@lth.se> <1991Jan23.032441.734@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1991Jan24.051427.9214@ircam.fr>
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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Originator: avolio@gildor.dco.dec.com

Oh, gee....  The blooming $ junk is in ther I imagine because some sloppy
programmer left it there.  Much s/w in Digital is developed on RISC
platforms (UNIX) and then moved to VMS.  Normally one sees conditional
compiles, etc. that contain VMSisms, but sometimes they slip through 
otherwise.  It is much easier to bend UNIX to accomodate VMS than the
other way around :-)

Fred