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From: bjm@sabin.UUCP (Brendan J. McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointers, tests, casts
Message-ID: <199@sabin.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 18:18:15 GMT
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In article <4860@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>Sadly, the only UNIX programming textbook I've seen on the market, by
>Rochkind, consistently uses 0 and NULL as actual parameters without any
>cast.  This may be because Rochkind did all his programming using Venix

Well,  I have learned a great deal from that book.  But when verifying
your claim, I noticed the use of gets() in his getargs function for his 
shell!  Thank God for USENET gurus to set me straight (or at least getting
me so confused that I am forced to verify everything that I read anywhere.)


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