no excuse for short identifiers in the standard

Brandon Allbery bsa at ncoast.UUCP
Sun Oct 14 00:01:20 AEST 1984


> Article <>, from day at kovacs.UUCP (David Yost)
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| ... And please, let's not standardize
| on the unix linker.  It's too simple-minded.

AMEN!  It'd be nice to patch some existing programs to get around curses
brain damage with nl termcap strings.  Unfortunately, there's no way
in Unix to make an executable to which you can append more functions...

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