Modula2's godawful IO.

[Wayne A. Christopher]

In article <730 at mhuxm.UUCP>, gak at mhuxm.UUCP (Vincent Hatem) writes:
> Besides, the whole idea of the WriteCard()-style I/O system is to remove the
> 20K overhead that printf() adds to programs. 95% of the functionality of 
> printf() is never used, and you're just making your text segment larger.

I doubt this is the reason -- hardly anybody cares about text segment size
any more, and in any case, printf is only 2K, not 20K.  (In Ultrix -- your
mileage may vary.)

	Wayne