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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3053 comp.os.linux.misc:21196 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!news.kei.com!ub!ns.potsdam.edu!news.potsdam.edu!nelson From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: source of TCP/IP (was I hope this wont ignite a major flame ...) Date: 05 Aug 1994 16:29:47 GMT Organization: Crynwr Software Lines: 20 Message-ID: <NELSON.94Aug5122947@crynwr.crynwr.com> References: <3163r7$440@quagga.ru.ac.za> <CtMp4G.7Ap@calcite.rhyolite.com> <31bl91$3b9@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov> <CtqrFJ.IM5@calcite.rhyolite.com> <31fd07$6pq@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov> <31od8d$15l@fw.novatel.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.143.201.14 In-reply-to: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca's message of 3 Aug 1994 15:31:25 GMT In article <31od8d$15l@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote: : Errr, I guess you haven't read any of the Linux source. Hint: I wasn't : worried about at least one of those organizations. As far as I can tell; Linux Ethernet device-drivers were written in Write-Only-C. There are no comments in the surrounding code that in any way indicates exactly what "0x3c00", "0x0a", "0x00c0" actually mean. To people without docs (usually these are the people who are trying to fix the code) the above is completely meaningless. So? Fix it if you think it's a problem, and submit it to Linus. Hackers write code, they don't whine about other people's code. -- -russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key 11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it? Potsdam, NY 13676 | LPF member - ask me about the harm software patents do.