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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: sys_errlist
To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:38:48 -0700 (MST)
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> Okay, so this is kind of silly, and I'm sure no one wants to hear
> about it, but the declaration of sys_errlist in stdio.h is truly a
> pain.  I'll suggest that it be removed.

It is only a pain for source code which assumes a different format,
when source code should not be screwing with it anyway.

I'm all for making the thing static in the library; lets see you screw
with it *then*.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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