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cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: A stylistic question... 
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Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> >     usage()
> >     {
> > 	printf( "%s", "bla bla bla...\n"
> > 		"bla bla bla...\n"
> > 		...
> > 		"bla bla bla...\n");
> >     }
> 
> 	Why do yo feel that you need the "%s" though?

Probably because somebody will eventually change "printf("bla blah bla\n");"
to "printf("bla bla 17%\n");" or something more insidious...