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From: [e-mail] (Mike McCarty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What to do when feof() is NOT feof()
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:59:53 GMT
Organization: DSC Communications Corporation, Plano, Texas USA
Message-ID: <4gb6e9$[e-mail]>
References: <[e-mail]> <4g7rsj$[e-mail]> <4g8qa3$[e-mail]> <4g9rjn$[e-mail]>
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In article <4g9rjn$[e-mail]>,
Aubrey Harrison <[e-mail]> wrote:
)Someone earlier posted this group is known as being hostile. I can see why.
)Maybe you have not noticed but there are a lot of people in this group trying
)to learn C, maybe you were born with it, maybe you sleep with k&r under your
)pillow, I don't know. While it is true that my C experience has been limited to
)the MS-DOS and Windows environment I don't know why I should be called an idiot
), (twice now!) by people that don't even know me. Maybe you guys should
)remember there are real people on the other end of these messages. I doubt you
)would stand up at a meeting and call a stranger an ignorant idiot because you
)did not like his suggestion.
)
)I should have started my message declaring that I knew that only to work on
)MS-DOS file systems. Actually the "I think..." that started my message and you
)found so offensive was mostly due to the fact that I was not sure if the syntax
)was "standard".  And when (or if) I ever make another post here I will be sure
)to do that. But the original poster did not indicate what platform he was on,
)and the symptoms he described were familiar to me.
)
)The Bottom line: I was only trying to give someone who was looking for some
)help, an idea of what might be the problem. What is wrong with that? Why should
)I be attacked for that?

[nested attribute showing Dan Pop calling the guy an idiot cut]

You shouldn't. Dan Pop is well known for

    acting as self-appointed moderator
    using abusive language
    being quick to cause offense
    being quick to take offense

He occasionally gives help. Sometimes it is even good. He does seem to
be pretty knowledgeable. But the accent must be on the seem. On several
occasions he has posted with seeming omniscience, only to be caught out
wrong. I can't recall a single instance when he moderated his statements
to say "I think" or similar language. I also can't recall when he was
caught out and straightforwardly admitted it. I'm not saying the events
haven't occurred, I'm saying that I don't recall them.

I have caught him out in error myself a few times. His responses were
either verbal abuse, or silence. No inbetween. And I cannot remember an
instance when he apologized.

Personally, I skip threads and messages to which he posts. He seems to
be one of those people who cause others to either love him or hate him.
I personally choose not to read threads to which he posts, unless there
are quite a few other posters, so that the noise level is bearable.

You'll have to make your own decision on these matters. Hang around for
a while, and you will get plenty of opportunity to collect information
about Dan and his behavior, and make up your own mind. He posts rather
frequently.

Mike
----
char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}

I don't speak for DSC.         <- They make me say that.