From:	jstacey AT plato DOT wadham DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (J-P)
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Subject:	Re: hello world program still not working
Date:	16 Jul 2000 19:55:50 +0100
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In article <tho3ns0gga4vth2ggjej4gmjrdphbt2h2j AT 4ax DOT com>,
Damian Yerrick  <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p> wrote:
>The OP may have been reading a C tutorial on the Web with badly done
>HTML.  The <stdio.h> was deleted by the browser's HTML engine.  But
>wouldn't it have generated an HTML warning: missing </stdio.h> tag?

Like the <p> tag and the <td> tag always do? ;) HTML-interpreters are
meant to second-guess and be forward compatible, /and/ to barf silently. 
You'd probably have to look at the /source/ on, say, Netscape, for the bad
HTML to be highlighted. 

J-P

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