From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 10:45:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA10427 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:45:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA10414 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 10:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA25809; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:33:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199701121833.LAA25809@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: number of lines in a file, given its size To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:33:06 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "J Wunsch" at Jan 11, 97 11:48:54 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > You are certainly right, but i think that's a moot point basically. > > > It requires you at least the following file in order to break: > > > > strdup() to the rescue! ... > > Failed. Try again. UTSL first. J"org, you are downright diabolical... Obviously, I wasn't citing code in this case, only a method of functional decomposition. This response is tantamount to claming that only a single function decomposition can suit each problem... and I don't believe that for a second. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.