Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Input Line Editing
Message-ID: <3069@geac.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 88 14:06:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.3069
References: <11933@ncoast.UUCP>
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From article <11933@ncoast.UUCP>, by allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery):
> ???  Why not just a modified version of gets()?  If you're running under
> SVR3, you can build a new version of the shlib with the new gets() and
> thereby upgrade every program on the system without recompiling!
> 
> -- 
> Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery
> 	    For comp.sources.misc send mail to ncoast!sources-misc


   I've been avoiding this discussion up to now, but...  AARGHHHHH!

  (There, I feel much better).  

  Has anyone noticed that the facilities for composing a
fairly-arbitrary stack of facilities into a program is starting to
appear in Unix?  This is one of the big, hard and time-consuming
problems which was carefully, consciously and (I think) wisely left
out of PDP-11 Unix...

  Persons interested in the problem of "where do I put what" are
cordially invited to look at the dynamic linking facility of
Multics[1] and at its search rules hierarchy.

 --dave (see below) c-b

[1] Multics is dead.  Unix is catching up. Sorta. Multics is also a
    trademark of Honeywell-Bull, who don't make it.
  
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