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From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
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> From ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com Thu Mar 20 21:51:25 1997
> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:55:11 -0500 (EST)
> From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
> To: ponds!village.org!imp@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU,
        ponds!lambert.org!terry@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: Re: Barb problem, FOUND
> Cc: ponds!freebsd.org!hackers@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU,
        ponds!wgold.demon.co.uk!james@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
> X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
> X-UIDL: e5e3cfd6091cbeac8d85ac00f2302abc

Wow, your mailer did SOMETHING funky to the return addresses (UUCP gremlins?)!  
:)

>  Hey!  As manager of the SAS/C compilers I object to that :-) :-)
> [We like to keep our skeletons in the closet, thank you.]
> 
> 
>  Of course; you likely mean the ooolllddd ones - not the spiffy new
> ones we have now :-) :-)   We still use and actively maintain
> those compilers - we just don't sell them to the public.  The SAS
> system on PC, mainframe (370 - MVS and VMS), MAC (68K and PowerPC)
> is built with compilers that owe their existence to that offering.
> [We still 'maintain' the amiga compiler via updates on-the-net.  But,
> you can't buy that one any more either.]

Funny, I bought SAS/C 6.5 for Amiga a few years back, through the SAS book 
department.  Are you sure they've stopped selling it?  Don't know what I'm gonna 
do with it now, but it's nice to have around (the manuals are a great reference 
for libc stuff, at any rate).

>  My point here is that compiler vendors often do fix things.  Sometimes,
> even before they are forced out of business :-) :-)  So, you'd due
> well to report problems and #ifdef around them until they are repaired.

Agreed.

-- Jake