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From:	byron@netapp.com (Byron Rakitzis)
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To:	Bengt.Kleberg@uab.ericsson.se, byron@netapp.com, woods@weird.com
Subject: Re: RC => POSIX
Cc:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu

Hey, you don't have to switch to my last name! I hope my last
message was not taken in the wrong light. I was just trying to
clarify my previous words.

I don't think prototyped code should go. ANSI compilers are
practically ubiquitous, and there are filters for converting code
to the old style.  Early on, in 1991 maybe, I seem to remember
someone going through this exercise.

I think it would help to clearly define what the goal is of changing
the style with which rc is now coded. I would like to remain
compatible with whatever machines out there right now happily
compile and run rc, and I would also like to make it possible for
rc to be easily ported to a unix that isn't predefined in config.h.

Would all such new unices support posix? Does gnu autoconf effectively
cover the entire space of unices?

Byron.