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From: Tom Wheeley <tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: fopen problem.
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 01:40:03 GMT
Organization: City Zen FM
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <840850803snz@tsys.demon.co.uk>
References: <4v1gkv$kld AT lion DOT cs DOT latrobe DOT edu DOT au> <321BB9BF DOT 5A68 AT cs DOT com> <danpop DOT 840714366 AT news DOT cern DOT ch> <321B925B DOT 2178 AT idir DOT net> <4vip13$a9u AT flood DOT weeg DOT uiowa DOT edu>
Reply-To: tomw AT tsys DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

On 22 Aug, in article <4vip13$a9u AT flood DOT weeg DOT uiowa DOT edu>
     robinson AT blue DOT weeg DOT uiowa DOT edu "The Amorphous Mass" wrote:

> ageless AT idir DOT net wrote:
> >Dan Pop wrote:
> >> >Which again just goes to show just what wonderful morons the Micro$oft
> >> >programmers are...  or rather, the people who tell those programmers what
> >> >to do.  I sometimes wonder if the term "user satisfaction" is even in
> >> >Bill Gates's vocabulary.
> >
> >If it bothers you so very much, get a DOS programming reference
> >or Ralf Browns Int list and use the undoc'ed DOS int to change it
> >to a forward slash.
> 
>   Check your attributions.  Dan didn't write that.

Of course.  The bit whih says `Dan Pop wrote' has two quote chars, hence it
was something he quoted.  Someone obviously cut off Dan's attribution,
assuming it was there to begin with.

..splitbung                                        http://www.tsys.demon.co.uk
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