PE> If you want to document that your program is broken, yes, that makes a
FA> You mean i've got a "broken" copy of Msged ?
PE> You are correct, Msged is not a strictly conforming C
PE> program. It's miles from it in fact. Try complaining about
PE> Tobruk instead. Much less to complain about there! BFN.
FA> I wasn't complaining..
FA> I just don't agree with calling any program "broken" just
because it's
FA> not confirming. There is nothing visibly wrong with Msged if it is
Well, it depends on what your definition of "broken" is. If you
want a piece of source code that you can take anywhere, including an EBCDIC
MVS machine, and expect it to do exactly what it was doing when you were
running it on a 16-bit DOS machine, then anything that isn't strictly
conforming is broken. I used to do that a lot. BFN. Paul.
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