BL> make stat() work you have to explicity put
 BL> timezone = 0; daylight = 0;
 BL> and then ctime() won't work!
 BL> I love C. It's such a great language... and so portable, too.

 FM> Exactly!

  (grin). The absoultely worst part of C is the way they bend the
rules with pointers. After coming back from Pascal, I finally
understand that it is not the concept of pointers that is horrific in
C, it's their fuckwit conventions. I still can't believe *(void **)a! 

  I've been trying to use the qsort() function to sort a pointer array
of strings, and I defy *anyone* to do that successfully. It even gets
a mention in the Borland help! file (not that it helps in the least).

  The *really* funny part is that Gonighan and Richkid use qsort() as
an example of pointer arrays, but *their* version of qsort() in the
example is different than the real one. Their one makes sense. They
ignore the real one, so I guess they couldn't make it work either!

 BL> You used one too many brackets.

 FM> He used no brackets and exactly the right number of
 FM> parentheses.

  True. Bloody pedant.

Regards,
Bob


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