conan@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Robert B Carroll) (04/23/89)
Thanks for the info on reopening stdin(you know who you are!). If i didn't have all my i/o functions spread out over 25 different modules(i have my reasons), i would have done it chris's way. but the program is around 3700 lines already and i didn't feel like mussin' around with it. either way, good idea for the problem i stated chris. I guess i'll have to mess around with it if i decide to port it to a different(i'm using bsd 4.3 now). the original reason i wanted to do the close,reopen was to simulate redirection. -- conan@vax1.acs.udel.edu CONAN THE BARBARIAN
andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) (04/26/89)
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"the program is around 3700 lines already and i didn't feel
like mussin' around with it ..."
When you don't "feel like" changing a program correctly, but instead
choose to hack around it, it's time to freeze that program and go on to
something else. Otherwise the program is facing a long period of
decay, and you'll find it takes more and more time to perform each
enhancement.
A lot of really bad code has had its origin in this sort of attitude.
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