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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Inline assembler; a quiz  (long; sorry)
Message-ID: <1499@ncc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 02:03:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncc.1499
Posted: Tue Jul 21 02:03:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Jul-87 06:18:12 EDT
References: <608@zen.UUCP> <2299@hoptoad.uucp> <21211@sun.uucp> <830@omepd> <23262@sun.uucp>
Organization: Nexus Computing Corp.,  Edmonton, AB
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Summary: Cop Out!

In article <23262@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> Big deal.  You get documentation, you just don't get the "troff"
> source to it.  How many vendors *do* supply that stuff?  (Besides,
> getting it wouldn't do you any good; we use our own macro packages
> and other tools, and it would be too much trouble to supply and
> support them.)

That's a bit of a cheap shot! From what I've seen, Sun tends to
supply alot of "nice" things other vendors leave out. Why scrimp
on /usr/doc? If you use your own macro packages to produce the doc
then they (the macros) already exist, so there is no (non-politcol)
reason that they can't be shipped with the troff source. Nobody
says you have to support the macro package... Even without the "tools",
it's nice to be able to troff a basic copy of things to use when
you're working at home on the weekend (yes photocopiers exist,
but then again, why do people buy laser printers?)

--lyndon

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