Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!srs!forrest From: forrest@srs.UUCP (Forrest Durett) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Re: Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@ Message-ID: <181@srs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 14:32:11 EST Article-I.D.: srs.181 Posted: Mon Mar 10 14:32:11 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 05:48:19 EST References: <526@dsi1.UUCP> <29@gilbbs.UUCP> <408@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> <47@gilbbs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: S.R. Systems, Rochester NY Lines: 54 > In article <408@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm@ucbopal.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) writes: > > In article <29@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes: > > >or some other form of UNIX! If you are going to post software with major > > >system dependencies (such as long identifier names) LABEL them in the > > >summary, damn it! > > > > > > > ***SHIT*** Mike, what I *SHOULD* have done, it appears, is spend $50K or > more on a bigger, better system! There are 2 (count them two) versions of > UNIX (XENIX) available for the hardware I can *AFFORD*: 2.3a (an unGhodly > meld of V7 and SysIII), and SYS III. There is 1 (count it, one!) C compiler > available for this system/OS combination. > > > I humbly apologize to the you, and to the net, for not having bothered > to spend more money that I'll make in the next 4 years on my system! > > > Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me! > I will most likely receive the same inconsiderate treatment from Tom Keller that others have received for answering his article, but what hell I don't care. Mr. Keller, please send your flames to /dev/null where they will be more appreciated. I have just started reading this news group recently and have found some pretty useful programs on the net and I am thankful for it. I think that Mr. Keller is forgetting a very important point. He is getting this software free. It is written at the EXPENSE of the author only. I have a little suggestion for Tom Keller. If you do not wish to spend a little time to get a FREE piece of software up and running on your system, then by all means WRITE IT YOURSELF. Calling people louts and acting as if your the one that is doing the author a favor by using his or her software is a laughable act of inconsideration. Forrest Durett S. R. Systems Rochester, N.Y.