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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
Message-ID: <877@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 22:09:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.877
Posted: Tue Oct 13 22:09:05 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Oct-87 06:25:44 EDT
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Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
Lines: 7
Keywords: external names, length, bogosity to the max
Summary: Here's one reason for six character external names...

How do you intend to implement longer external names when the system linker
only supports six character single case? You can write your own linker,
I suppose, and watch all your potential customers stay away in droves
because they can't link 'C' to Fortran...
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