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From: jim@ism780b.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: 6 character external identifiers - (nf)
Message-ID: <11@ism780b.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Aug-84 00:30:03 EDT
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ism780b!jim    Jul 14 11:46:00 1984

> There is a rather elegant way to replace long external identifiers by
> shorter ones: use the C preprocessor.  It should be easy to write a
> program which generates a set of lines to a file "rename.h" like:
>
>         #define ThisIsAVeryLongName _1ThisIsAVeryLongName
>         #define ThisIsAnother _2ThisIsAnother
>         etc.

I submitted such a program, called shortc.c, to net.sources a while back.