Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa 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 References: <> 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... --bsa -- ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- From the tangled paths of the mind of: | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio |--------------------------------------- (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | R01{64,65,76}@CSUOHIO.BITNET ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- `Confusion is my natural state.'