But what about kernel printfs?

Eric Black ericb at athertn.Atherton.COM
Thu May 19 10:47:48 AEST 1988


In article <2219 at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> greg at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) writes:
>The one that grates on me is the abuse of "it's."  The use of the apostrophe
>is perhaps the only rule in English that has no exceptions -- I certainly
>don't know of any others.  There's no excuse for someone intellegent enough
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^
>to program a computer to make a mistake using it.
>-- 
>-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo   Greg.Noel at SanDiego.NCR.COM  or  greg at ncr-sd

I dunno, if their is any exceptions to that rule, than I dont now.
Looks like you loose!  <<< I think this one bothers me just as much, and
			   it seems to happen more often (at least on USENET)

Don't forget the ever-popular:
	Warning: something is hung (wont die); ps axl advised

I guess they couldn't figure out how to put an apostrophe into a
C string...

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