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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@
Message-ID: <171@desint.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 15:08:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  7 15:08:33 1986
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References: <526@dsi1.UUCP> <29@gilbbs.UUCP> <408@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
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In article <408@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike Meyer) writes:

> Finally, System V now supports flexnames, and Ultrix has always had it. If
> you're not running 4.2BSD or System V, it's your own fault (if you've got a
> vendor still selling 4.1, System III or v7, you should change vendors!). If
> your vendor hasn't upgraded to the latest version of System V, you should go
> shout at them. If you're on a micro, you probably need to buy/should have
> bought a better C compiler. But those are usually the compilers that are
> going to have more serious problems than lack of long names.
> 

Gee, that's awfully generous of you, Mike.  So it's all my fault the
compiler doesn't support flexnames now?  I should go change vendors,
huh?  (Are you offering to buy my existing equipment at a price high
enough to let me afford the latest and greatest?)

Oh, you don't want me to replace my still-functional obsolete
equipment?  I should just go "shout" at the vendor to supply me with V.2.
Let's see, the president of that defunct company works in Irvine;
that's driving distance for me.  Maybe I could go shout at him.  Or are
you offering to buy me a ticket to Paris so I can go shout at the V.P.
of Engineering?

Give me a break, Mike.  Even if I had a live vendor like MicroSoft, do
you really think that Bill Gates is going to change his release
schedules just because I yelled at one of his support persons?

Oh, I understand now.  I blew it when I picked vendors.  All I can say
is that it sure must be nice to be able to see into the future and see
which vendors are not going to make it.  Care to recommend any stocks
for me?
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff