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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Complexity of reallocating storage (was users command crap)
Message-ID: <6173@segue.segue.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 12:51:03 GMT
References: <4702@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <29421:Feb419:13:5891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <8921@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> <1991Feb07.013637.6542@convex.com> <9646@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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In article <9646@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>(I find it rather appalling to see how much longer the `good' version is
>in a side by side, er, bottom by top, comparison like this.  Still, it
>seems worth it.)

Appalled?  Are you a programmer or a wimp?
Code it as PrintError(ProgramName, CANT_READ, file);
or make ProgramName a global implicit argument.

Sheesh.