Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!ames!oliveb!sun!thetone!swilson From: swilson@thetone.Sun.COM (Scott Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: 509?? (Re: Max line length) Message-ID: <93864@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 14 Mar 89 18:39:47 GMT References: <2102@jasper.UUCP> <207600017@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <9777@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <11005@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <648@jhereg.Jhereg.MN.ORG> <2285@buengc.BU.EDU> <9847@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 16 In article <9847@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes: >Rest assured that there were good and sufficient reasons for that >particular number. If you had asked politely I might even have >explained what they were. Now go to bed without your supper. Geez, the guy tries to inject a little humor in this usually humorless place and he's treated like a baby. This kind of stuff reminds me of too many high school teachers who were equally humorless. Ok, Blair, you know what to say: "forgive me Doug for I have sinned...." -- Scott Wilson arpa: swilson@sun.com Sun Microsystems uucp: ...!sun!swilson Mt. View, CA