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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: IEEE 1003.2
Summary: people with big noses shouldn't criticize another's bad breath
Message-ID: <8570@alice.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 06:34:03 GMT
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Rob, before badmouthing other people's ideas, check your facts.
Many Unixes (BSD, System V, ...) have symbol tables for their object archives,
the same thing could be done for directories. Even a simple-minded ld
could arrange things to remember the symbol table from each .o it looks
at and thus read each .o at most twice.

as one might say, as obvious as the nose on your face.