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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
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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
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