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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix
Subject: Re: BOOKS: Advanced UNIX(TM) Programming
Message-ID: <1678@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 17:23:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 17:23:53 1985
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Summary: really portability

In article <152@brl-tgr.ARPA> gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) writes:

>  For portability, one should be programming in what
>amounts to a System V environment anyway, even on BSD systems.

No, one should program for v6.  Anything added since then is non-portable.

>  If
>you don't have a System V environment on your 4.2BSD system, it is
>your own fault, since one is available for free.

Oh?  Who's giving disks away?  Mine's full, I don't have *room*
for storing a sysV environment.

Snoopy
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