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lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle) writes:
[somebody else is paraphrased as writing:]
>> Statement that AmigaOS has no way to specify the
>> current directory!
>
>This was to be a mail reply, but I decided that more people
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>might be interested in the answer:

Nothing particular against Loren here, but this is a large part of the
trouble with reading the c.s.a.* groups.  I think so far I've counted
nine responses to this one.

Please, when someone makes an OBVIOUS error, as I did recently in
answering Larry Phillips posting about the condition codes not being set
to correspond to the returned value in D0 after a subroutine call*,
REALIZE that the error is an obvious one, one that DOZENS of other
people are going to catch too, RESIST the urge to see your name in print
with a "gotcha" posting, EMAIL your correction, and depend on the
originator of the error to publish the correction; become one of the
unsung saints of the net.

Post only in response to subtle errors; then you may well be the only
poster, and subtle errors spread insideously. Remember, though, what
seems subtle to you might still be obvious to the other dozens, so email
is safest.

*(In my defense, there wasn't enough context in the (trimmed down)
article to which I responded to indicate it _was_ a subroutine call
being referenced, so I thought it was a return from a context switch.
Yes, I should have known better, Larry doesn't make that level of
mistakes.)

Kent, the man from xanth.
<xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <xanthian@well.sf.ca.us>
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Canonization imminent; I _emailed_ _my_ correction.  ;-)