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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: gripes about error reporting
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Date: Tue, 13-May-86 18:20:13 EDT
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While not wanting to run down what Chris Torek has done, or discourage
people from using it (*any* serious effort to do good error-handling is
a win over most existing Unix programs!), it is most unfortunate that
it uses the same name as the error() routine in Kernighan&Pike, but with
a different and incompatible calling sequence and semantics.
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