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From: suitti@ima.isc.com (Stephen Uitti)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: "Invalid null command"
Message-ID: <1991Apr04.210851.12396@ima.isc.com>
Date: 4 Apr 91 21:08:51 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.005620.11434@ico.isc.com>
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In article <1991Apr2.005620.11434@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
> ...description of history leading to IEFBR14.c:
>	#include <stdlib.h>
>	#include <locale.h>
>
>	#ifndef	lint
>	static char *sccsid = "%W% - %E%";
>	#endif
>
>	/*ARGSUSED*/
>	main(argc,argv)
>	int	argc;
>	char	**argv;
>	{
>		setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
>		exit(0);
>	}
>
>To create the final version, all you need is your local draconian
>corporate screenful of copyright notice and disclaimer.

I did this exercise some years back.  My version allowed links
"true" and "false", and would return the appropriate value.  It
required one disk block, and ran faster in many cases than the
shell version.  Running faster was a feature.  As I recall, I was
chastised, because it was not considered as portable.  Yet, it
compiles and runs on the Mac without modification.

Stephen.
suitti@ima.isc.com
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