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From: alanc@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Coopersmith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Summary of differences between BSD, SYSV and POSIX
Date: 5 Aug 1994 03:39:17 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
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al012@un.seqeb.gov.au ( ANTHONY LEE) writes in comp.unix.bsd:
|Could someone please point me to any articles, reports which
|summarizes differences between BSD, SYSV and POSIX ?
|
|I am particularly interested in C functions and the values
|they return e.g. in SYSV sprintf returns the number of 
|characters printed but BSD doesn't.

You might want to check out a copy of the POSIX Programmer's Guide
from O'Reilley & Assoc.

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