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From: eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386BSD's non-standard C library
Date: 29 Sep 1992 12:35:19 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

[...]
>Anyone with pretentions of writing portable code should be forced to port
>their code to (say) Xenix-286.

>That'll separate the men from the boys.

or perahps masocists, better yet why not insure portability to msdos,
or better still, mswindows :-).

- rusty

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eddy@usc.edu

Don't worry about me i'm a nobody.