[Coco] glork!!!

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 18 11:34:03 EST 2007


On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Willard Goosey wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:28:29 -0500

>>From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

>>

>>Which, using the above syntax, would appear to be correct. And I think you

>>would get the same result if a puts("foo bar\n"); was done but its been so

>>long I won't go anywhere near a bible and say that. :)

>

>Goodness, I didn't even think of puts! Let's see... AT&T man page

>says puts returns EOF on error, doesn't say what it returns on

>success. Linux man page says non-negative number on sucess, EOF on

>error. Microware C manual doesn't say anything about puts()'s return

>values. I'm too sleepy to fire up OS-9 right now, I'd probably fry

>something (damn touchy MPI!), so I can't actually try it.

>

>>I don't think it was the return values, but what it was actually

>>printing, so his strings were being interpreted as numbers somehow,

>>or at least that is how I read it.

>

>Sorry to confuse you? I was annoyed and sleepy when I posted last

>night.

>

>Willard


NP Willard. I was probably 2/3rds asleep when I read it. :)

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