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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: date change and wtmp record
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 13:49:21 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199605052249.AAA02987@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 6, 96 00:49:46 am
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> > I think you're wrong; I see '{'.  Maybe your font is broken?
> > 
> > In any case, it should be a manifest constant in utmp.h used by
> > both the code that plops the characters in, the man page, and your
> > code that you want to use to plop the characters out.
> 
> How do you #include something into man pages? :-)

You give the *name* of the manifest constant instead of it's *value*.

The current man page gives a non-manifest *value* that then gets
(stupidly) hard-coded into all source code.  Bletch.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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