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From: campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Frequently asked questions in these groups deserve a monthly posting
Message-ID: <775@redsox.bsw.com>
Date: 8 Jun 89 03:41:53 GMT
References: <21089@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <810060@hpsemc.HP.COM> <773@redsox.bsw.com> <1770@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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In article <1770@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
->The list need not be huge;  questions with long answers should probably
->refer the reader to the appropriate page in K&R or other suitable reference.
->
->(Yes, I do believe that people without a copy of K&R should not be posting
->in this group.)
-
-I would not go that far; many UNIX users know little or nothing of C,
-and that's just fine.  (Just as many users of VMS know nothing of
-Macro-32 or BLISS, say.)
-
-Now, I'd say that nobody without access to a copy of K&R should be
-posting to "comp.lang.c", but that's another matter.

Oops, you're right.  I temporarily forgot that I was posting to
comp.unix.questions and thought I was back in comp.lang.c (where
there are even _more_ stupid questions, if you can believe it).
-- 
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