rbj@icst-cmr.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) (07/17/86)
Jim, I find it somewhat amusing that you say I'm obviously a novice after I have been using C for 6 years (starting on an early Version 6 PDP 11/34). I'm even the resident expert at Camp Wondermite on UNIX and C; obviously, we are still in the Dark Ages here but at least I recognize that fact. I'm glad you're amused. I would probably be offended. You can't always tell the level of the questioner by his questions. Sorry about that. Anyway, this is a thank you note for your responses both to my original question and to Doug Gwyn's reply. The info contained therein was quite useful and I *DID* appreciate the (explicitly) non-portable, quick and dirty solution. Having spent the last 2 years porting FranzLISP around, I think I can appreiciate both portable and non-portable code. Anyway, Well, that's music to my ears. Thanx, David Linn P.S. I am another of those who enjoys the Pinhead Quotes that accompany your postings. They come from `yow', a Zippy fortune-like program packaged with GNU EMACS. I could send it to you if you like. Do you have COMPRESS? BTOA? UUDECODE? (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> DON'T go!! I'm not HOWARD COSELL!! I know POLISH JOKES...WAIT!! Don't go!! I AM Howard Cosell! ...And I DON'T know Polish jokes!!