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Re: Federal censorship regulations


On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Peter Kaczuba wrote:

> "Function: void abort (void)"

> "Future Change Warning: Proposed Federal censorship
> regulations may prohibit us from giving you information
> about the possibility of calling this function. We would be
> required to say that this is not an acceptable way of
> terminating a program."

The warning may be tongue in cheek.  Anyone living in the US is
aware of the extreme sensitivity of the abortion issue (as it
applies to human foetuses, not computer programs).

Allin Cottrell.


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