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From: schwartz@gondor.psu.edu (Scott E. Schwartz)
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Subject: Re: MAJOR ANSI C FLAW (my opinion, of course)
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Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 12:51:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 15 12:51:09 1987
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Summary: Companies can be made to fix it.

In article <1298@wyszecki.munsell.UUCP> jwf@munsell.UUCP (Jim Franklin) 
writes about some companies with short external name restrictions:

>HP, PRIME, etc.

Prime, at least for EPF type executables, has already fixed this.
Programs built with BIND support 32 character external names.
(At least it said this in the manual, I didn't bother to try it since our
Suns arrived at about that time :-)

If prime can fix this, why can't everybody else.


-- Scott Schwartz            schwartz@gondor.psu.edu