Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!root From: root@hobbes.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: section 3 manpages Message-ID: <135@hobbes.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jun-87 17:39:48 EDT Article-I.D.: hobbes.135 Posted: Wed Jun 17 17:39:48 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 00:37:06 EDT References: <7574@brl-adm.ARPA> <2002@dg_rtp.UUCP> <6573@ism780c.UUCP> Reply-To: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison Spanish Department Lines: 38 +---- Tim Smith writes the following in article <6573@ism780c.UUCP> ---- | Rather than fix the man pages, someone should fix the include files! | | Each include file should be sure to define something that no other | include file defines, and the entire file should be wrapped in a | #ifndef...#endif on that thing. | | Then, if an include file needs some other include files, it can just | include them itself. +---- I code my own files this way because it works well and I don't have to do anything that the computer should do for me. BUT, I have a SVr2 binary license. Am I going to change my .h files? NO ! ! ! Why should I? I can't give out copies of the include files to others because of: /* Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T */ /* All Rights Reserved */ /* THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T */ /* The copyright notice above does not evidence any */ /* actual or intended publication of such source code. */ What good does my hacking my include files do anyone else out there? More importantly, what good does it do me? If I want my code to be portable then EVERYONE ELSE must doctor their .h files too. ^^^^^^^^ The only way to keep code portable is to fix the man pages. The missing required files should be noted and the results posted. This info will help everyone out here who doesn't already know what needs what, and source code will remain portable. -- John Plocher UUCP: !uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher ============== Internet: plocher%hobbes.UUCP@uwvax.cs.Wisc.EDU FidoNet: 121/0 BITNET: uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher@psuvax1