Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!oddjob!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!urbsdc!wombat From: wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: RCS and SCCS Message-ID: <29500031@urbsdc> Date: 15 Aug 88 03:49:00 GMT References: <1207@dragon.UUCP> Lines: 9 Nf-ID: #R:dragon.UUCP:1207:urbsdc:29500031:000:442 Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!wombat Aug 14 22:49:00 1988 This happened with a file on the user-contributed software tape that came with 4.2BSD. A '%D%' got expanded to a date in the middle of a printf string, causing mysterious failures.... "I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly. "That's not the answer to *every* problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said. *Software*, Rudy Rucker Wombat uunet!uiucuxc!urbsdc!wombat, wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM