On Oct 16, 9:50 pm, "lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com"
<lovecreatesbea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 17, 11:07 am, user923005 <dcor...@connx.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > As a rule of thumb, don't post anything here until it compiles or
> > until you are simply unable to figure out why it won't compile.
> > In the latter case, point out "I can't get this code to compile --
> > what's wrong with it?" or something like that.
>
> We can make mistakes in a usenet newsgroup, can't we :-(

I don't have any problem with someone making mistakes. If the same
mistake happens 77 times in a row, I get annoyed.

> > When you do get the code to compile, simply copy and paste the working
> > code into your browser or news client. It is far less error prone
> > than retyping and considerably easier also.
>
> Yes, it's good suggestion.
>
> I did a replacement in Vi and removed the asterisks in my code
> carelessly.

No wonder. The editor vi is icky(tm). But so is emacs. I do all my
Unix side editing with UltraEdit32, which will do the end line
translations for you and does all kinds of wonderful things like
syntax coloring and can handle 100 GB files.

IMO-YMMV.