From: Pete Becker <petebecker AT acm DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:19:30 -0400
Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd
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Mark McIntyre wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:37:46 -0400, Pete Becker <petebecker AT acm DOT org>
> wrote:
> 
> >Stuart Golodetz wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The issue was not the point I was making, I was saying that perhaps the fact
> >> that he was misreading hex meant he was trying something which was too
> >> difficult for him. As it happens he *can* in fact read hex, as he has kindly
> >> pointed out to me in an email flame, despite the fact that I pointed out I
> >> was not trying to be offensive.
> >
> >Whether or not you were trying, you succeeded. Newsgroup postings often
> >have minor (and sometimes major) mistakes, and to question someone's
> >competence based on minor mistakes is, indeed, insulting.
> 
> you obviously don't post in CLC much. That kind of error is liable to
> get you flambee'd with the best of them here.

I post here quite often. I agree that people here overreact to errors.

-- 
Pete Becker
Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com)