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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to delete files within C programs
Date: 13 May 1996 11:44:17 GMT
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juengst@saph1.physik.uni-bonn.de (Henry G. Juengst) wrote:

> >the "UNIX envelope", Henry. There's damn few variances in the UNIX family
> >that don't fall under one or the other of those alternatives.
> 
> "damn few variances" ? Nice joke.

No.  Peter was marking the outer edges, and his remark was that almost
everything in the Unix world falls somewhere inbetween.

> >> Endianness is also no problem.
> >
> >That's why people write code with ifdefs for endianness all over the place.
> 
> Well known in unix code.

Of course, VMS programs don't need to have endianess #ifdef's. :-/

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j