Re: [leafnode-list] Leafnode-1.9.5b2

["David Given" <dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[...]
>Does it? On my ancient libc5, ctime() automatically attaches an \n to the
>output string by itself, i.e. the output looks something like
>
>28900-943543591-1:     1268 bytes, spooled Thu Nov 25 16:26:31 1999
>        From: Cornelius Krasel <krasel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>        Ngrp: de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
>        Subj: Re: Login-Screen-Text "Welcome to SuSE Linux..."  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=

My glibc (2.1.2) does the same:

18185-943537285-1:     2361 bytes, spooled Thu Nov 25 13:41:25 1999
        From: dg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Given)
        Ngrp: rec.arts.sf.written
        Subj: Re: Fire upon the Deep SPOILERS [just finished]

>which is the way it should look like (IMO, of course). (Did I ever mention
>that I hate portable programming?)

You should talk to Graham Nelson, writer of the Inform compiler, one day. 
*You* known you're running on a *nix system. *He* had to write code that would 
compile on everything from 16-bit DOS to Linux to MacOS to Atari ST... He's 
been known to rant quite astonishingly on C portability.


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