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- From: Julian F. Reschke <julian@GINA.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
- Subject: Re: libraries
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 93 12:46:44 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9301180839.AA22415@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>; from "entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu" at Jan 18, 93 3:39 am
-
- > Ooops, maybe I didn't make it clear what I meant: The code in the
- > library will stay exactly as it is. The source files will all have
- > the newlines stripped out to make my life easier. I'll probably end
- > up distributing along with the library a stupid little utility I
- > churned out over the weekend that can strip or add CR's to a file, so
- > that people can convert the library source to whichever format they
- > like best.
-
- Sorry. Perhaps it was too late @night yesterday :-)
-
- > It would probably be much easier to hack up an awk script to convert
- > your files, or make up a header file "compat.h" with things like
- > "#define DTA _DTA" and so on. What we don't need is a new standard
- > that everyone will ignore...let's learn our lesson from XBRA and ARGV,
- > and get on with it...
-
- Hm. I don't like to have lots of defines for that. Let's do it cleanly
- this time. If we can agree on a common standard, I'll use these definitions
- in the next edition of my book.
-
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