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To:	Chris Siebenmann <cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
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Subject: Re: A general desire for rc 1.5/1.6 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Aug 1994 15:55:44 EDT."
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Date:	Tue, 2 Aug 1994 17:21:59 -0400
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cse.psu.edu>
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|  It would be nice if all the scattered prototypes for various system
| functions could be centralized in one header file; it seems that lots
| of systems have conflicting definitions for some or all of them, and
| it's annoying to have to touch four or five rc source files to get rc
| to compile.

One thing I'd like to see for 1.6 is some utility routines abstracted 
out into libraries.  I've already taken Paul's print routines and 
rewhacked them into libprint.a, fixing a number of bugs in the process
(which were benign since rc didn't exercise them.)  It's a little
bigger (5K vs 2K) but it does lots more (famous last words, I know).

If anyone wants to check it out, you can ftp it from
	ftp://groucho.cse.psu.edu/pub/scott/print.shar

If similar things were done to the globber and glomer you could get
shell globbing in other programs (in opposition to the unix tradition
of not reusing code.)