Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:52:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <3865BB31.880BDA2D@newsguy.com> References: <19991225005010.155641CC6@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > > -C is silly. It adds a flag to the header of the generated files to say > "this data *might* have a comment". fortune looks to see if there "might" > be a comment and skips the double delimiters if so. The double delimiter > is otherwise illegal. If an old fortune binary sees a new file, it won't > know about the double delimiter. If a new fortune sees the double > delimiter it will ignore it. This is exactly the same behavior that would > happen if -C was unconditional. That is not true. Just try making a file without -C containing a "comment" and then fortune'ing it. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Nice try, Lao Che." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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