Re: Stupid programming errors.

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From: k... Ken Yap
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 06:23

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A long time ago, in a distant University, I wrote a program to log onto
a serial line to a mainframe Cyber from a PDP-11 running Unix and fetch
files in the background. It worked and was useful because the Cyber OS
was so horrible. Trouble was, in the program I wrote:

	printf(string);

It was only later on that I realized why my output was missing percent
signs and other characters.

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From: k...@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: Stupid programming errors.
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Date: 11 Sep 90 06:23:17 GMT
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