From:	Pete Becker <petebecker AT acm DOT org>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c
Subject:	Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:37:46 -0400
Organization:	Dinkumware, Ltd
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Stuart Golodetz wrote:
> 
> 
> The issue was not the point I was making, I was saying that perhaps the fact
> that he was misreading hex meant he was trying something which was too
> difficult for him. As it happens he *can* in fact read hex, as he has kindly
> pointed out to me in an email flame, despite the fact that I pointed out I
> was not trying to be offensive.

Whether or not you were trying, you succeeded. Newsgroup postings often
have minor (and sometimes major) mistakes, and to question someone's
competence based on minor mistakes is, indeed, insulting.

-- 
Pete Becker
Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com)

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