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From: phil@rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Unlock?   AarRgh!
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Date: 21 Nov 88 16:41:19 GMT
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Now I thought I had this all figured out.  The capitalization rule for the
library routine names seemed very simple:  the first letter in every word
or word-abbreviation is capitalized.  Thus: CreateDir, AllocMem,
PrintIText (the I being short for "Intui" or "Intuition").  Well, imagine
my surprise when the linker told me last night that the reference "Unlock"
was not resolved.  Turns out I wanted "UnLock".  So Commodore, what's "Un"
short for?  "Undo"?  "Unallocate"?  "Unotbeneedingthisanymore"?
Grrrrrr....

I'm collecting pearls of wisdom gleaned from my attempts at writing
assembly language programs for the Amiga.  Kind of like the "Proverbs"
book from the Amiga Programmer's Bible.  So here's one for you: "`unlock'
is two words."

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>

P.S.:  are the 1.3 includes available yet?