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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 !

> --
> Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
> 
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....





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