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Date:      Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:04:21 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Borland 16bit bcc vs cc/gcc (float)
Message-ID:  <199706012334.JAA16113@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199706012154.RAA32452@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Jun 1, 97 05:54:20 pm"

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Joel Ray Holveck stands accused of saying:
> >I wonder if there would be any chance of shipping K&R 2ed in soft form
> >with the system?  It's my favoured reference 8)
> 
> Really?  I find that the items which I frequently need to refer to are
> library calls, which aren't discussed in any great detail (where they
> are discussed at all).

Library calls are necessarily fairly system-specific; that's what
manpages are for.  The most commonly observed problems here are
conceptual problems with the syntax and usage of the basic language.

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