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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:53:49 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Ian Chapman wrote:
> 
> Nate,
>         I sent you a  message and I get the following reply every 5 minutes.
> Can you get your system Admin to stop.

Sorry, I haven't checked my mail in a bit.  Has it stopped now?

Are you sure it came from my ISP?  What do the headers say?  If it did,
I will ask my admin about it.

In general, with such things, it is probably better to mail the
administrator of the offending system directly (try postmaster@).

Anyway...

> Hi there,
>         just had a look at the read me files from the dos.zip distribution.
> I'm still wondering what this does for me.  Does it help me understand a
> segment of hard to read cpp code?  I'm lost as to the utility of this
> package.  Where it fits into the big picture.

Basically: It is useful anyplace you need to create or understand a
complicated declaration.  For example, if somebody declared a variable
as

int *(*foo)();

it might be confusing.  cdecl can help to explain this.  Or, as I
mentioned in my announcement, if you want to declare a complicated data
type (array of pointer to function is a common one), it can help you
figure out how that works.

It might help to understand its purpose if you were to play with it a
little.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com