Novice question.

The Knight Guard longshot at monkey.ecn.purdue.edu
Thu Nov 15 01:38:02 AEST 1990


>	"extern" means that the variable is global, and was declared in a
>separate .c file.  If your program occupies only 1 file, you will never
>use this.
>
>John Gordon

	Not true here...  Our cc seems to require that all functions/procedures
  be defined before the main block.  The way around this is to extern all 
  functions before main...  Dunno if this is just our compiler, anyone else
  seen this?  Any ideas of why?

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