PE> PE> software like your reader.  Another solution is to ask the reader

PE> FM> The solution is not to have brain-dead software designed by brain-dead
PE> FM> 'C' programmers who use NULLs to define the end of things.

PE> As opposed to your vaporware, with 0 bugs, you mean?  Is that the

FM> *My* software is neither vapourware nor especially buggy. Let's take

Where can I FREQ it from?  If it's not FREQable, it's vaporware,
just like OS/2 4.0.

FM> PKTJOIN as an example, that's a very simple program, hard to get wrong.
FM> My version, written in Pascal of course, has 2 fewer bugs than yours -
FM> maybe 3, I can't work out whether 2 of the problems in yours are
FM> actually manifestations of the same bug. I suspect it checks for more
FM> potential error conditions than yours too, but I don't wish to delve
FM> into arcane C syntax to find out.

You're probably running an old version of PKTJOIN, it now has
error checking on the writing, and there have been NO reported
bugs.  And don't bother trying to say that misuse of the program
counts as a bug.

FM> Sure it's not portable, but I have no need or intention of running
FM> PKTJOIN on a MVS-based mainframe. 

Some people want to run it on OS/2 32-bit.  Well, if they were
going to run it at all.  Linux is another requirement for any
software I use in the long term, as that's where I want to end
up going.

FM> I value bug-free and robustness above
FM> portability. 

If it isn't portable, it doesn't exist at all when it comes time
for me to run Linux.

FM> And as well as having at least those 2 fewer bugs, 

Likely a complete lie.

FM> it's 30% faster than yours 

It may well be 30% faster than the one you have, but there is no
way in the world that it would be faster than the one I could 
write if I had wanted to.  I would do so, except I don't have your
vaporware one available to keep you honest.

FM> and both the source and executable are smaller.

That I can't be sure of, only the speed.

FM> Wow! I think I've hit a hot-button here! :-) Let's just say I prefer the
FM> programs I write and use to work and be robust, and easily maintainable.

Vaporware you write.  Yeah, between your PKTJOIN and Bob's
PKT2QWK, you've got the most impressive collection of vaporware
I've ever NOT seen yet.  BFN.  Paul.
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