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echo: os2prog
to: Paul Edwards
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1995-09-01 11:53:08
subject: tidbits

ZZ>
  > MS> ????? you mean the original code fprintfs to a closed files?? fix the
  > MS> source code.
  >
  > PT> just another example of unixish dirty file system hacks, like doing
  > PT> unlink() on an open file :)
  >
  > To serve what purpose?  Or are you just renaming "bugs" to
  > "unixish dirty file system hacks" to make it sound more like
  > the people knew what they were doing, instead of pointing out
  > that a bug is a bug is a bug?  BFN.  Paul.
ZZ>

  The aphorism that you are probably groping for is "a bad workman
  blames his tools".  (-:

  > JdeBP <
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