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From: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 21:44:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 21:44:46 1987
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Reply-To: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser)
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Keywords: external names, length, bogosity to the max


I've run into the oposite problem -- I've taken code from the net and
ported it to systems that used long names (> 8 chars) and discovered
that the code would not work because of variant spellings in the latter
chars.

The moral?  No matter how many characters your system allows, make sure
the names match on any extra chars, since the restriction may be removed.

					Daniel Glasser
		One of those things that goes "BUMP!!!(ouch!)" in the night.