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From: "david presotto" <presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:21:29 -0400
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I forgot to tell you, I renamed ED to CP...
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From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question


> > Do you guys work mostly with flat file hierarchies or what?
>
> For simplicity, I keep all my work in one huge file and use e.g.
> #ifdef ED
> ....
> #endif ED
> to extract the specific lines of C source that make up ed when
> i need to work on ed. (I'm usually working on ed when I should
> be working on cp; old habits die hard). This style of use means
> for example there is only one copy of
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> on the system, which saves a lot of space.
>
> I have some ideas for a similar technology to apply to 9fans.
>
> -rob
>
>