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Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post)

From Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post)
Date 2024-02-27 17:04 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <g96nl+vMavChDI2be@bongo-ra.co> (permalink)
References <ur1ie5$2cgfo$1@dont-email.me> <jh8EdBXIFQu4WLaKt@bongo-ra.co> <urdmnf$1d3vr$2@dont-email.me> <NMK4r+7PMexyUgngk@bongo-ra.co> <attribution-20240227165431@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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On 27 Feb 2024 15:55:58 GMT
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:
> Lines beginning with ">" are from the post at the end of the References:
> >fseek(bin, -3, SEEK_END);
> 
>   I am now testing a new attribution line added by my post script
>   (which I have written in Python). - If one still should read
>   "writes:", above something went wrong.
> 
>   While I usually do post test posts to test newsgroups, in this case,
>   I post to "comp.lang.c", so that Spiros can see my new attribution
>   line and complain again should he still deem it to be misleading.

You're overcomplicating things. The misleading attribution arose because
you snipped too much context rather than because you used "writes". If you
had written and quoted from  <NMK4r+7PMexyUgngk@bongo-ra.co>  something
like

Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:22:55 -0000 (UTC)
> porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) wrote:
> For example , your code has
> 
>    fseek(bin, -3, SEEK_END); // jump 3 bytes before end of file

then everything would have been clear and I wouldn't have complained. But
anyway , your new method is also unambiguous.

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getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-20 06:56 +0000
  Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-24 16:19 +0000
    Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-24 17:06 +0000
      Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-24 21:25 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-24 17:59 -0800
          Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-25 11:49 +0000
            Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-25 14:54 -0800
              Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-02-25 22:58 +0000
              Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) dave_thompson_2@comcast.net - 2024-03-01 18:37 -0500
                Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-03-02 01:10 +0000
                Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2024-03-02 02:36 +0000
                Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-03-02 12:13 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-26 15:07 +0000
          Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-03-02 12:16 +0000
    Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-24 21:22 +0000
      Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2024-02-25 00:48 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-25 01:51 +0000
      Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-26 14:50 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 15:15 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-26 13:38 -0800
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-26 21:40 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-27 16:17 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-27 17:04 +0000
        Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-27 18:20 +0100
    Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-02-25 18:42 +0000
      Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-02-26 15:20 +0000
  Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-02-28 22:21 +0100
    Re: getOpsFromSelf() (Long Post) porkchop@invalid.foo (Mike Sanders) - 2024-03-01 00:38 +0000

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