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From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.c,comp.unix.sys5.r3
Subject: Re: how to completely get rid of bcopy, bzero, bcmp?
Date: 29 Dec 1994 06:41:37 GMT
Organization: CICNet, Inc.
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References: <3bksus$fg4@spruce.cic.net> <mrg.788060915@fulcrum.com.au> <D190Do.16x@druid.com> <mrg.788659869@fulcrum.com.au>
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In article <mrg.788659869@fulcrum.com.au>,
matthew green <mrg@fulcrum.com.au> wrote:
>darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>   Seems like the wrong way around to me.  There is a standard and it
>   specifies mem* so why not define them the other way round and use
>   the standard functions in your code?
...
>the original post asked how to "get rid of" the b* functions,
>not how to write portable code, etc.  i assume that they were
>trying to port some (old) code to some system v like system
>that didn't have the b* functions.

Yep, that was me.  The "old" code was telnetd from NetBSD current
actually ;)

I was trying to build it under Dynix/ptx 2.1.0 (SVR3.2 based)


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Paul Southworth
CICNet Systems Support
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