03 Jun 95 08:23, Paul Edwards wrote to joaquim homrighausen:

 jh>> There is no reason to make it "free-format".

 > Well I disagree there, there is a reason to make it free-format,
 > because it allows things that you didn't allow for, e.g. people
 > using 11-character program names, such as "fleetstreet", and
 > specifying versions to a precision that they think is right, 
 > e.g. 3.00 instead of 3.

A free-format would make it virtually unparsable.  Is that sufficient?  I
can't think of a legitimate reason why you'd want to parse a PID.

andrew

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