Using identifiers with more than 7 chars. #$%@
Forrest Durett
forrest at srs.UUCP
Tue Mar 11 05:32:11 AEST 1986
> In article <408 at ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU>, mwm at ucbopal.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) writes:
> > In article <29 at gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020 at gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes:
> > >or some other form of UNIX! If you are going to post software with major
> > >system dependencies (such as long identifier names) LABEL them in the
> > >summary, damn it!
> >
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> ***SHIT*** Mike, what I *SHOULD* have done, it appears, is spend $50K or
> more on a bigger, better system! There are 2 (count them two) versions of
> UNIX (XENIX) available for the hardware I can *AFFORD*: 2.3a (an unGhodly
> meld of V7 and SysIII), and SYS III. There is 1 (count it, one!) C compiler
> available for this system/OS combination.
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> I humbly apologize to the you, and to the net, for not having bothered
> to spend more money that I'll make in the next 4 years on my system!
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> Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!
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I will most likely receive the same inconsiderate treatment
from Tom Keller that others have received for answering his article,
but what hell I don't care. Mr. Keller, please send your flames to
/dev/null where they will be more appreciated. I have just started
reading this news group recently and have found some pretty useful
programs on the net and I am thankful for it. I think that Mr. Keller
is forgetting a very important point. He is getting this software free.
It is written at the EXPENSE of the author only. I have a little
suggestion for Tom Keller. If you do not wish to spend a little time
to get a FREE piece of software up and running on your system, then by
all means WRITE IT YOURSELF. Calling people louts and acting as if
your the one that is doing the author a favor by using his or her
software is a laughable act of inconsideration.
Forrest Durett
S. R. Systems
Rochester, N.Y.
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