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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: RTFM vs RTFSC (Read The Friggin' Source Code)
Message-ID: <2402@phri.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Jul-86 13:12:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 27 13:12:33 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jul-86 05:06:53 EDT
References: <14935@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1078@ttrdc.UUCP> <240@petrus.UUCP> <5530@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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Original-Subject: Re: Question on getopt()


In article <5530@sun.uucp> guy@sun.UUCP writes:
[Regarding the 4.3 *and* Sys5 getopt(3) man pages being wrong]
> Read the code, not the manual page!

	That this should have to be the case is perhaps the strongest
reason why I wouldn't consider buying a system without source (when we
recently had to decide between Sun and Sequent, Sequent lost largely
because they wouldn't release source for a reasonable price).  This is also
on of the strongest reasons why I don't think Unix is really going to make
it as a commercial system (the current rash of commercial ports of Unix
notwithstanding).
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016