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From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius)
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 13:38:15 GMT
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Dan Pop (danpop@cernapo.cern.ch) wrote:
: In <3caffj$poc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
: >corey@hotrod.alph.att.com () writes:
: >
: >> Gee! maybe you should have looked in /usr/ucbinclude
: >> on a UW system before you made this statement.
: >
: >Libraries in /usr/ucb* don't count. They're not part of the "native"
: >OS.
: Before continuing this discussion about the availability of strcasecmp()
: in libc or in any other place, could someone point out which C or Unix
: standard describes and/or requires this function?
Certainly strcasecmp() isn't part of ANSI-C. It is, however, part of the
XPG/4v2 interface definition (a.k.a. Spec1170). As such it is highly
likely that UnixWare will move it out of /usr/ucblib/libucb.a and into a
more standard place "real soon now".
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