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From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
To: The rc user community <rc@archone.tamu.edu>
Subject: Re: A lighter read function
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1991 19:37:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91Dec12.203706est.2736@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: david's message of Thu, 12 Dec 91 19:58:56 -0500. <26539.692585936@golem.UUCP>

 David's quite right; obviously I haven't tested my read function enough.
I'd make it
	_v=`` $nl {line; echo $status $nl $status}
since I don't want to count on line returning just 0 or 1 status.
And it should check $#_v too, just in case.

	- cks


  reply	other threads:[~1991-12-13  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1991-12-11  4:32 DaviD W. Sanderson
1991-12-11 12:28 ` David J. Fiander
1991-12-11 19:28   ` Chris Siebenmann
1991-12-13  0:58     ` David J. Fiander
1991-12-13  1:37       ` Chris Siebenmann [this message]
1991-12-13  1:47       ` David Hogan
1991-12-11 21:48   ` Ronald S H Khoo
1991-12-12 12:16     ` David J. Fiander
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1991-12-11  3:53 David J. Fiander

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