Hi CHARLES.

12-Dec-03 04:46:00, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to JASEN BETTS


 CA> 1237e147415d c_echo

 CA> Hello Jasen -

 JB>> ISTM pre-processor could be written to filter Bills inbound and
 JB>> strip (or blank) the offending characters, it;s not like there's
 JB>> a dearth of programmers in this conference!

 CA> "dearth"?

(not in your dictionary?  syn: shortage)

 CA> You have obviously made the common mistake of thinking C
 CA> programmers are here lurking.

 on occasion I communicate wih some of them. I'm not  going to name names
 because I don't want to insult any of them by omission.

 CA> This is just a hiding place for
 CA> Pascal programmers waiting for those frequent posts of new Pascal
 CA> utlities etc. that popup here from time to time.

I haven't seen any of that here.

 CA> Possibly I could write one in OBERON?

what use would that be to anyone running a posix-ish operating system?

 CA> Note: No listing of new C programs are posted here _ever_. ;-)

do you mean source or announcements ? (I've seen both)

 -=> Bye <=-

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