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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: Standard C Programming - wot a dumb idea.
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 08:00:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 22 08:00:28 1987
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|8. No BSD or Sys V dependent stuff - must be able to compile 'clean' on 
|   any system.

This is a joke, right?  I do not have access to 6 different OSes, let
alone two dialects of Unix. Most posters, I suspect, like I, wrote the
code originally for their own use, then post to the net in the hope
that someone will find it useful. If this rule could even be enforced
(a joke in itself) we would end up with a trickle of postings of mostly
trivial programs.

Besides, even if I were to try to make the code portable I would not be
able test the code out. But hey, isn't half the fun of getting sources
off the net making it run on your machine and then chiding the poster
for lack of foresight :-)? Believe me, porting C between Unix dialects
is nowhere near as hard as translating language X to language Y, for
most X and Y.

	Ken