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From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
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Subject: Re: Self-reproducing program
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Date: 28 Mar 91 17:07:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com's message of 27 Mar 91 17:22:12 GMT

merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

   seek(DATA,0,0);print<DATA>__END__

Is this guaranteed?  Will Larry guarantee that DATA is always open on a
seekable file that contains the entire text of the program?

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Joe Wells <jbw@bu.edu>