Re: assembly in future C standard [OT]

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:08 -0500, CBFalconer wrote:
jacob navia wrote:

... snip ...

This is the same as C. C is portable but
system("ls");
will work in Unix and not in windows.

Oh? It works fine here under W98.

Not over here under Media Center or Blister RC2.

The chances of someone installing UNIX tools on their system seems
lower than that of them installing cgywin or just plain Linux. And
both of those chances are still pretty low right now.

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