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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:42:24 +0100
To: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
From: Lloyd Wood <L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Geomview & Cygwin setup
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   <geomview-users@lists.sourceforge.net>,
   <geomview-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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At Friday 2006-04-28 15:17 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > If you want people to use the information you provide rationally, do
> > not colour that information with irrational attempts at humour to
> > provide misinformation that causes doubt.
> >
> > We need to trust the output of gcc -v.
>
>   No, this is completely wrong and absolutely not what you want to do.  The
>output of "gcc -v" is a human-readable summary of various internal information
>which can be obtained by more reliable means for programmatic use.

So you admit that gcc -v's output is deliberately unreliable and will 
lie to the human reader, then.

L. 

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