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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Undocumented SunOS libc function stricmp
Date: 14 Nov 1994 22:28:56 +0100
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duncanm@ingres.com (Duncan Mackinder) writes:

>I have some code from a customer which worked on SunOS but wont build on Solaris
> due to undefined symbol stricmp.  stricmp exists in the SunOS libc.a but I can'
>t find any documentation on it.  The consultant who wrote the code has long sinc
>e gone so I have no idea what the function should do or what the Solaris equival
>ent may be.  Does anyone have any info on this function.


It's identical to strcasecmp.

Casper