movedata () recoded in 80x86 assembly

Doug McDonald mcdonald at aries.scs.uiuc.edu
Sat Feb 16 02:18:27 AEST 1991


In article <872 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:
>In article <5024 at umbc3.UMBC.EDU> cs106132 at umbc5.umbc.edu (cs106132) writes:
>>
>>   Hi,
>>I was wondering if anyone out there show me an example of coding a
>>routine that will do the equivalent of Turbo C's "movedata()" function.
>
>
>I would suggest to everyonewho is considering posting a message to comp.lang.c
>to ask themselves this question:
>
>"will anyone without a <insert name of your computer here> care about this?"
>
>If the answer is no, please, please PLEASE don't post it here.  Somebody will
>no doubt suggest I use my kill file.  Well, this is my kill file for this
>group:
>
>/:*TURBO C*/:j
>/:*TurboC*/:j
>/:*Quick C*/:j
>/:*QuickC*/:j
>/:*Microsoft C/:j
>

And here would be mine if kill files weren't so SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

/:*UNIX*/:j
/:*Unix*/:j
/:*Posix*/:j
/:*BSD*/:j
/:*SYSV*/:j



And they *still* would not catch all the Unix-specific noise that goes through this
>group.   Instead of trying to catch every permutation of Unix-ese in my kill
>file, I'd like to see everyone show a little common sense in posting.  When I
>have a Unix -specific question, I post it to comp.unix.???




Doug McDonald



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