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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: no excuse for short identifiers in the standard
Message-ID: <404@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 10:01:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.404
Posted: Sat Oct 13 10:01:20 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 03:55:09 EDT
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Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland
Lines: 18
Summary: Hoorah for a better Unix linker!

> Article <>, from day@kovacs.UUCP (David Yost)
+----------------
| ... And please, let's not standardize
| on the unix linker.  It's too simple-minded.

AMEN!  It'd be nice to patch some existing programs to get around curses
brain damage with nl termcap strings.  Unfortunately, there's no way
in Unix to make an executable to which you can append more functions...

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