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From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241)
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Subject: /usr/minix/amoeba/examples/client3.c
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Date: 17 Mar 89 13:46:18 GMT
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I'm teaching a course in local networking this semester, using Andy's
Second Edition networking book.  Some of the students are having to
learn C as they go, and I suggested the Kernighan and Ritchie "bible"
as the best self-teaching text I know of.

Therefore, I thought it was amusing that one of my students (a foreign
student, actually, with a real language gap) who is just learning C
pointed out to me that Andy's sample remote file client program,
client3.c, does not work because the main routine has a read statement
which is of the form  "if ((n=read(fd,buf,bytes) < 0))" and, as stated
on page 15 of K&R, this always sets n to 0 or 1, rather than the number
of bytes read.

John Nall
Florida State University