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Subject: Re: Program To Ease Unix-Amiga CrossOver
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-86 11:02:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 11:02:27 1986
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That was an awfully short program to have a bug fix so quickly, Perry! :-)

In IBM land, from whence I come, the shortest program supplied with the 
operating system is a 2 instruction, do-nothing program called IEFBR14.
It is invoked whenever you don't really want to run a program, but merely
want to take advantage of some of the side effects that the Job Control
Language is willing to provide.

This program (2 assembler instructions, mind) has, reputedly, the highest
ratio of bug fixes to code length of any in that arena.  The two instructions
were to zero the return code register, and return.  The bug?  They zeroed the
wrong register!

Perhaps this should have gone in comp.sys.amiga.jokes, but we haven't gotten
that specialized yet.

Michael