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From:	Tom Culliton <culliton@clark.net>
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Subject: Re: RC => POSIX

> From: Malte Uhl <Uhl@rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
>
> And that's exactly his point! Why use BSD or SysV semantics when you can do 
> it posixly correct?

Uhm... So it'll work on those systems which don't have Posix support?
After all, the whole point of #if's for portability is... PORTABILITY!

To do wonderful new Posix rewrite of rc for "Posix" systems so it
suddenly doesn't work on all the old BSD and SysV systems that it has
worked on "all along" would be pretty darned silly in my opinion.
I've had to work on and port code to, too many "backwards" systems to
leave somebody else swinging in the wind like that.

Tom