CompuServe Messages

My stand was, the Amiga's wildcards are more powerful than the old style, I like them, in fact I prefer them, and do not wish to see the '*' used in the file system for other than the console and so on. I'm not all that hot on flexibility, Don. Not that kind. There needs to be some kind of bottom line standard everyone takes off from – and that goes for language writing as much (or more than) anything else. One of the primary problems with all the PD c code is much of it is unreadable, uncompilable (due to ILAC, for instance – _the_ slimy programming practice) and just generally unusable. I've good good, solid reasons for what I want in C code. I run an engineering dept that has a number of people doing things at one time – I can't be dealing with a bunch of sloppy formatting; so I eliminated the problem. Now, that increased my ability to deal with my work so much that I can't possibly ignore it. Others who have been "forced" into this style are happy they were. No exceptions. We have three new people coming on board, hopefully, in the next 3-4 weeks – I'll let you know if any of them have problems. But, in the meantime, it looks to me like I have a _very_ good means of eliminating a large number of problems. I aim to stick by it unless something better comes along – which so far, nothing has even come close. I'm sharing that in the ToolShed package, to be used or not as the buyer pleases. The idea was to share it – not to provide Yet Another C Formatter to munge code to the users taste. Those are already out there. Ben Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S