Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote:
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 May 2008, H.S. wrote:
> >> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>> Is this a binary file or a text file?
> >>
> >> hmm. Text. I made it clear in the original post.
> >
> > Ron has trouble keeping up with things like that.  It's so hot
> > where he lives his brain is often overheated with the lest bit of
> > mental effort.
> >
> > Hal
>
> Thats okay. It is not a problem here. But had he committed this
> sacrilege in a newsgroups full of Linux "gurus" (you know, the RTFM
> type Linux/Unix puritans), he would have been flamed to cinders. :)

Interesting way to put it, since he is a puritan guru.  (Or Linux guru, 
or puritan Linux guru -- I'm not sure which word should modify which 
here!)

Hal