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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Unlock?   AarRgh!
Message-ID: <3119@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 88 21:39:46 GMT
References: <2174@kalliope.rice.edu>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <2174@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
)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

So what's the Le short for, "Less"?  "Lethargic?"  "Leadbelly?"  "Lecherous?"

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


Sorry, we're still going through them making sure we spelled your name correctly.

Obviously, you haven't use a Layer_Info, or opened a  WorkBench.

	jimm
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