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    30-Jul-90  19:06:38
Sb: #5712-#OSK - passwords?
Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

Well, if you want to use a well defined, comman approach, then you tie yourself
down to not making any improvements.  I don't honestly know whether or not my
code is Unix compatible... are you refering to the way it's written or the way
it works?  I can tell you it's fully compatible with the way OS9 currently uses
it's password file format, the way it sets up environment variables, etc.

Quite frankly, I don't give a hoot about being unix-compatible.  I want to be
better than unix - and if I have to break some obscure rule about the way one's
code has to be written, so be it.  However, I do prescribe to all the common
OS9 rules about writing good code, i.e. staying between the lines, don't poke
around with other people's memory, etc.

I looked at Kreider's lib once way back, but found it very combersome to the
way I wanted to program.  Nothing at all against Carl, of course - I think he's
done a fine job, just followed a different path.

My libraries are of my own making though, and are not directly compatible with
either unix standard (Sys5 or BSD).  Some people might dismiss them immediately
then on that grounds.  The last 6809 version has already been released, and
those people who started using it congratulated me on it's format.

I guess the question is, do you want to be compatible or better?

StG

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