Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!smds!rh From: rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: pointer sizes, was: Re: What does char **ch mean? Summary: Protect the humor impaired Message-ID: <474@smds.UUCP> Date: 18 May 91 06:29:48 GMT References: <1991May4.062007.3264@weyrich.UUCP: <16071@smoke.brl.mil> <2274@talos.npri.com> Organization: SMDS Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 24 In article <2274@talos.npri.com>, jerry@talos.npri.com (Jerry Gitomer) writes: > rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes: > :However these fussy rules are only > :for portability freaks. If your friend is only going to have one job in > :his life, work on only one machine in his life, and only use one compiler > :I see no reason why he should worry about these issues. > I think you forgot the :-) Quite right. Mea Culpa. Usenet is famed for its contributors who are dangerously humor impaired and cannot recognize irony or sarcasm even when they are laid on with a trowel. Extensive experience has shown that the net is quieter and more decorous when the humor impaired are protected from their propensity to flame by the judicious placement of smileys. :-) -- Richard Harter, Software Maintenance and Development Systems, Inc. Net address: jjmhome!smds!rh Phone: 508-369-7398 US Mail: SMDS Inc., PO Box 555, Concord MA 01742 This sentence no verb. This sentence short. This signature done.