Hygiene of #define DIR \"/usr/lib/news

[Larry DeLuca]

In reference to the above style of defines:  cute.  but it's the same
kind of cute that leads to headaches later.  (also to headaches during
when more than one person is working on a project and one goes through
and "fixes" the other one's "mistakes").

it just sets off all sorts of alarm flags in my head.  i prefer to
build the string using strncat(3) and then give the built string to
system(2).   If you're feeling like doing it better, you can use
sprintf(3) (which i do for more complicated examples than the one above)
to construct the string).

					larry...


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