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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Multiple external definitions
Message-ID: <634@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 10:47:30 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.634
Posted: Fri Mar  8 10:47:30 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 05:21:16 EST
References: <151@cci-bdc.UUCP> <282@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <363@sftri.UUCP> <5124@utzoo.UUCP> <365@sftri.UUCP> <551@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Organization: North Coast Programming, Cleveland
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Summary: 

> Article <551@rlgvax.UUCP>, from guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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| All UNIXes prior to System V supported multiple external definitions.

Our Xenix system, however, doesn't, for all that it was developed from V7
source.  Lots of programs fail spectacularly on my terminal (including the
editor I'm using to type this in), because my terminal requires padding
and almost every termcap-using program we get has "int ospeed;" in it
(we need "extern short ospeed;", also outlining a certain size dependency...

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