Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!polya!kaufman From: kaufman@polya.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Poll on shar formats Message-ID: <2993@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 88 00:48:26 GMT References: <868@fig.bbn.com> <1494@microsoft.UUCP> <4838@teddy.UUCP> <887@fig.bbn.com> Reply-To: kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 16 Posted: Fri Jun 3 20:48:26 1988 In article <887@fig.bbn.com> rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes: >An X on all lines seems to me playing lowest-common-denominator safety, >in the same league as <64K postings. Unfortunately it has a cost. Yes, but all the same, I would urge you NOT to do otherwise. I have had a *NIX sort-of-look-alike for some time that DID NOT have a working 'sh' shell. All my unsharing has to be with a text editor or sed. Complex prefix rules are difficult to cope with if you cant run the 'official' tools. If you are really concerned about all the extra characters sent, just remove the comments to compensate [NO, NO, I don't mean that, really, ... its just an example... I actually did have one person who took over maintenance of a program I wrote delete all the comments 'because they made the assembly longer'] Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)