Sean Hamilton wrote:
What is the first parameter to select(2) for? Microsoft's select
ignores it,
and it does not appear to have any valid use since it only allows
constraints on values which are assigned by the system.
Purely historic?
Ah, you've been reading the Winsock documentation.
Terry Lambert wrote:
Average English word length is 5 characters; with a space, that's
6 characters. 65 characters is therefore 11 words. The Bell Labs
study which set telephone number length limits at 7 digits found
that the average person could keep between 5 and 9 items in memory
at a time.
Wes Peters wrote:
Seriously, limiting your programming for a lifetime to 80 columns
because you couldn't figure out how to make some grotty old dot
matrix printer do 8-point printing a decade ago really isn't all
that smart, is it?
No, but I still find 80 columns to be a reasonable limit. The
David Schultz wrote:
Thus spake Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't understand why these companies don't just
include sources for their X drivers, it would make life so much easier.
Usually it's because they (wrongly) think it will protect their
trade secrets from competitors.
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