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to: Paul Edwards
from: Roy McNeill
date: 1996-09-21 15:13:34
subject: indent

On (17 Sep 96) Paul Edwards wrote to Roy McNeill...



 PE> It's probably not a good idea to do that. Minimal changes are the

 PE> order of the day I reckon. Because otherwise you're going to get a

 PE> completely diverging version of indent, with no chance that it gets

 PE> into the original author's work (and thus becomes someone else's

 PE> job to maintain!).



 RM> Forget it, then, that source code needs too many band-aids. Just to

 RM> get it to compile without errors I had to add twenty-one



 RM> #include 



Thinking of that later, it seemed a rather idiotic fault, so I

looked harder, and there's something wrong with the way my compiler

finds include files in that project, so the above complaint is

probably invalid. More later.



 PE> Oh, that's a bummer.  So to compile and run with Borland, you needed to

 PE> include 21 include files, and change the one fprintf.  Is that it? We might

 PE> try just adopting the fprintf change.  BFN.  Paul.



That should do for now.



Cheers



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