🚀 go-pugleaf

I write:
>Any idea why the sscanf below core dumps (bus error) when the
>following program is compiled with gcc version 1.39?
[...]

Yowza!  Many thanks for the answers that have been pouring into my
mailbox.  Unfortunately we don't have the manual here (which mentions
the problem, and the solution of using -fwritable-strings).  Time to
make a case for getting one.  Now I just have to figure out why my
newsreader keeps double-appending my .sig...

RMS:
>By the way, on another topic, what do you think about look-and-feel
>lawsuits?  Do you think it is a good idea for interfaces to be
>copyrighted?

I'd try to think up some witty response, but they've all been used
8-).  The actual code, maybe; the appearance, *NO*.  I'm leaving in
about a month to become a ski bum for a while, and as I've no PC, I'll
be out of touch with the CS world until I decide to work again.  What
can someone in my position do to help the LPF and/or FSF?  Ideas,
anyone?  I've been procrastinating long enough.
herecomesthefloodherecomesthefloodherecomesthefloodherecomestheflood 8-)
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