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Retransmissions and dead subjects.

#126
From: John Quarterman
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1985 15:49
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From: John Quarterman (moderator) <std-unix-request@ut-sally>
Topic: Retransmissions and dead subjects.
Discussions-Of: UNIX standards, particularly the IEEE P1003 draft standard.
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The next four articles I will post to this newsgroup are retransmissions.
This is because, in an overly clever attempt to reduce the overhead of
the information formerly at the end of each article, I added the five
non-standard headers you now see included as part of the text above.
This is perfectly proper according to both the news article and mail
message format specifications.  However, some news (or notes) version
out there cannot handle either non-standard headers or sheer numbers
of headers and truncated all the articles which contained them.  Also,
as Robert Elz points out, most news reading programs will not display
the extra headers anyway unless the user explicitly asks for them.

Several people have complained that the getopt discussion is getting
overly verbose for the amount of information conveyed.  In particular,
implementation details of the standard I/O library are rather peripheral
to the standards effort, and would fit more readily in net.unix-wizards
or mod.unix than in mod.std.unix.  If you submit an article on getopt,
try to make it something new.  Better:  let's go on to other topics.

I am, however, still hoping someone will determine if there really is
a public domain AT&T getopt and submit it, if so.
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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: mod.std.unix
Subject: Retransmissions and dead subjects.
Message-ID: <2439@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 11:49:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 11:49:55 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jul-85 01:40:46 EDT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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