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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15725 comp.lang.c:88978 comp.unix.sys5.r3:2347 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls 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. Lines: 22 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3dtln1$rv8@spruce.cic.net> References: <3bksus$fg4@spruce.cic.net> <mrg.788060915@fulcrum.com.au> <D190Do.16x@druid.com> <mrg.788659869@fulcrum.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net 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) -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net