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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 10:31:25 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Announcing Allegro 3.11
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At 12:18 PM 2/28/99 +0000, you wrote:
>   Andreas Kluge wrote a driver for Ensoniq Soundscape cards.

I've gotta ask: would any of you trust a driver written by someone with the
last name of "Kluge"? :-)

I guess it's an unfortunate name to be stuck with, when going into
programming. :-)

>   Added a new WARNMODE environment switch to the makefile.

How do you do stuff like that, other than by having your users use a crufty
set/make combo instead of a straight "make target -options"?

>"A binary is barely software: it's more like hardware on a floppy disk."

A plug for open source software? :-)
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