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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Library function redefinition
Message-ID: <1389@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 4 Mar 91 03:14:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.143756.12400@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1383@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <DBRENNER.91Mar3012022@sparta.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
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In article <DBRENNER.91Mar3012022@sparta.weeg.uiowa.edu>
	dbrenner@sparta.weeg.uiowa.edu (Doug Brenner) writes:
>And I bet you haven't used shared libraries on Prime systems running Primos.

We still have a Prime 9955-II running PRIMOS that I still use on
occasion.  Pay up.  (And you wondered how I can afford to give
software away for free.  :-) )

>Give it a rest.  NeXT may have chosen to create the same shared library
>problems as "System V and SunOS 4.1+," but that doesn't make things okay.

It's not a bug.  It's a feature.

Try reading someone else's code that's obfuscated things by
redefining common library procedures.  I welcome the change!

					-=EPS=-