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On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:56, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> With a size of 0 it's easy to cheat:  return a "magic" minimal-sized

Correction (what I get for shooting off my mouth at 1am...): 
"minimal-sized" is meaningless in this context.

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brandon s. allbery    [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]     allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator      [WAY too many hats]        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH