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[Kevin Weller]

In article <1990Oct26.115021.6330 at watmath.waterloo.edu> datanguay at watmath.waterloo.edu (David Adrien Tanguay) writes:

>          .....                   The big problems in porting software to
>  this system are byte size assumptions, pointer format assumptions, and
>  "all the world's a Unix" library assumptions.    .....
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Agreed on all points but the last one.  Though I will try to avoid
specific Unix implementation dependencies, I will always BLATANTLY
assume a Unix environment of some kind.  Sorry, can't help myself!  :-)

>  -- 
>  David Tanguay            Software Development Group, University of Waterloo

-- Kev

PS:  I hope I didn't misunderstand your meaning here.