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To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c ifconfig.h ifmedia.c 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 10 May 1997 18:49:08 BST."
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Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 21:33:18 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > 
> > > > peter       97/05/10 10:14:54
> > > > 
> > > >   Modified:    sbin/ifconfig  ifconfig.c ifconfig.h ifmedia.c
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Clean up some more.  Move parsing of sysctl iflist data into a single
> > > >   place rather than updating the main loop's index variables from within
> > > >   a subroutine and other revolting things like that.  Move some more
> > > >   globals into local variables.
> > > 
> > > I once tried to fix some bugs in a program which had three global
> > > variables, i, j and k.  It used these all over the place for loop
> > > variables and often changed them in subroutines.  It was 'fun' trying to
> > > figure out the control flow...
> > 
> > Wasn't that called "Basic" or something? :-)
> 
> It was C pretending to be Basic.  The program was some kind of Boulderdash
> clone for X, called xbd as I remember.  Does anyone know if it still
> exists?

Wow !  It's years since I've played boulderdash !

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> Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
> 
> 

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