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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
Date: 27 Jan 2004 08:41:22 +0100
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"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.

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