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In article <danpop.824829220@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
 >>Again,sorry Dan. It just seemed like you were bragging about UNIX and 
 >>putting down DOS (god forbid).
 >
 >Could you post the paragraphs (from this particular thread) which gave
 >you this impression?

If Dan were advocating UNIX over DOS, would he not suggest that people avoid
stdio functions and go right for the cool UNIX/POSIX system calls?

After all, the lame standard library, despite giving you fscanf(), has no
equivalents for select(), fork() or mmap(). Everyone knows that memory mapped
files are far cooler that sucking bytes through a straw known as stdio.

But Dan, being the gentleman, suggests that in a newsgroup that embraces all
standard implementations of C regardless of platform, the proper recommendation
should be that C programs use the standard library, wherever it applies.

 >>DOS is inferior to UNIX in almost every respect. Why isn't UNIX the
 >>most dominant OS in the world? 
 >
 >Are you sure this question belongs to these newsgroups?  Keep your cheap
 >sarcasms for yourself, please.

It is _not_ the most dominant? Out of things that are entitled to be called
"OS", it sure is.
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