Re: tbl problems

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1987 19:50

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> 	Now, for the $64k question -- why the hell did Sun take tbl, which
> has been working fine for many years and break it? ...

Continuing in the fine Berkeley tradition? :-) :-)

More seriously, they may have been trying to fix it and ended up shipping
an inadequately-tested version.  Tbl is full of the ugliest grot you've
ever seen, and misbehaves nastily under stress.  It could stand fixing.
-- 
"There's a lot more to do in space   |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry

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