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<<On Sun, 24 Jan 1999 15:55:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> said:

>     Strings are a whole lot more portable then integer assignments.

Nonsense.  Strings are not portable at all -- they only exist in
FreeBSD.  The reference implementation (4.4BSD) and its other
descendants use numbers.

-GAWollman

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