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From: ugfailau@sunybcs.uucp (Fai Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What's Wrong here?
Message-ID: <6949@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 00:43:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  2 00:43:33 1987
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In article <6767@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>In article <312@etn-rad.UUCP> jru@etn-rad.UUCP (John Unekis) writes:
>-In article <6761@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>->In article <6855@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfailau@joey.UUCP (Fai Lau) writes:
>->>In article <6755@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>->>That is, when the sign bit is turned on as
>->>a result of bit shifting, it can not be turned off again,......
>->Is this REALLY true of the 80*86 family?  If so, it's the only
>->architecture I've ever heard of that behaves this way......
>-No, It is not true. I think Doug was confused by the difference between a
>-logical shift instruction, and an arithmetic shift. ...
>
>I'm afraid I confused you by including one too many "... writes:" lines.
>I (Doug) am well aware of the differences between types of shifts.
>However, Fai Lau posted a fascinating "correction" to my correct response,
>claiming a new and unusual form of brain damage, presumably for the 80*86
>architecture (since these messages have been cross-posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc).
>
	It's a no-no, Doug. For a while I thought you had to be one
of those mischievious little brats that whouldn't listen but keep
insisting on fooling around with their old man's PC. But then I
had my doubt. You know how to spell "brain damage".
	Nevertheless It is quite amusing to observe the hilarity
of your attempt at commanding the written language. Despicable
manners aside, your inability of organizing ideas in words can
only be matched by your ignorance of facts so prominently displayed
in your paltry writing. As those of us who have noticed that
particular article I posted have already know, the only
thing that I even came close to "correcting" you was on the
issue of whether overshifting in C is defined. I had my
opinion. And I was speaking more from a system point of
view. I wasn't interested in the science of the programming
language. But of course this whole thing I wrote left your
miniscule mind utterly perplexed and hopelessly confused.
But then I had no intention of lowering myself to speak at
your level.

	Well, folks, I better stop before it gets out of hand.
I understand that this kind of bantering is very inappropriate
for this news group, but someone's got to do the dirty
job of putting Doug in his place, before he again posts anything 
offensive and mindless they way he did. Remember, Doug,
a man is never too old to learn, or too young to get
spanked! ;-):-);-):-);-P:-|;-P:-|

Fai  Lau
SUNY at Buffalo (The Arctic Wonderland)
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