How come include file patent isn't mentioned in position paper?
Steve Simmons
scs at iti.org
Mon May 13 23:17:32 AEST 1991
From: barmar at think.com (Barry Margolin)
>This sounds much fancier than the standard #include file mechanism. Most
>#include facilities don't have any way to specify portions of files, only
>whole files.
If memory server, the MTS file system has always provided the
feature. It worked something like
$CONTINUE WITH <filename>[line#][line#]
Given the extreme variation mts files were allowed in line numbering,
it could get quite pathological.
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