Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 21:33:18 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sbin@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c ifconfig.h ifmedia.c Message-ID: <199705102033.VAA07543@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 May 1997 18:49:08 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970510184606.292I-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Doug Rabson wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > >
> > > > peter 97/05/10 10:14:54
> > > >
> > > > Modified: sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c ifconfig.h ifmedia.c
> > > > Log:
> > > > Clean up some more. Move parsing of sysctl iflist data into a single
> > > > place rather than updating the main loop's index variables from within
> > > > a subroutine and other revolting things like that. Move some more
> > > > globals into local variables.
> > >
> > > I once tried to fix some bugs in a program which had three global
> > > variables, i, j and k. It used these all over the place for loop
> > > variables and often changed them in subroutines. It was 'fun' trying to
> > > figure out the control flow...
> >
> > Wasn't that called "Basic" or something? :-)
>
> It was C pretending to be Basic. The program was some kind of Boulderdash
> clone for X, called xbd as I remember. Does anyone know if it still
> exists?
Wow ! It's years since I've played boulderdash !
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> Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891
>
>
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