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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
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Pascal Obry wrote:

> "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk> writes:
>>Impossible. Some UNIces provide some API structure members,
>>while others don't, or provide something else again. Yes,
>>you can dumb it down to a "standard" (or omit non-universal
>>functionality), but by doing so you throw away functionality.
>>I find that unacceptable.
> 
> Well yet if the standard offers 99% of the functionality you need it remains
> you to do the work for the remaining 1% ! Not that bad :)
> 
> Pascal.

Who guarantees that it will only be 1%? ;-)
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