Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: ASM vs HLL Message-ID: <8260@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 19:33:52 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8260 Posted: Mon Feb 11 19:33:52 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 02:10:57 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 21 /* > At the University of Oklahoma, our PDP-11 software came from the Purdue/ECN: > this gave the person setting up this machine a fine base to start with. The > thing that constantly bit us was a person there who wrote all his programs > (system-wide programs, like the editor!) to use HIS VERSION of the Standard > I/O library. This guy #include'd it from his HOME directory! (No, John, it > wasn't you.) > > Try maintaining that. > > Jeff Bowles > Lisle, IL Sadly enuf, stdio has been thru a lot of changes. There was the early versions, the portable i/o lib (-lp), ported copies back to v6, berkeley, etc. Perhaps he captured a specific version he was used to, perhaps he added his own features. Perhaps he should have altered the names or changed them all to capitals. I myself have often wanted different features. "You can't tell the players without a scorecard!" */