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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david
From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: Is re_comp, re_exec somewhere ?
Message-ID: <david.716786576@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au>
Keywords: re_comp
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Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
References: <1992Sep16.233757.28937@mel.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 18 Sep 92 03:22:56 GMT
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tim@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au (Tim Liddelow) writes:

>I have been attempting to build some apps in the etc disttribution, and
>have found that re_comp isn't in any of the libraries (save for maybe libg++ -
>useless).  DO I have to get it from uunet as I did for crypt() ?

There is a drop-in replacement, called 'regex.c' which will give you the
regular expression functions. I used them for 'less' and it works perfectly.

>  Tim Liddelow                                          for(;;) fork();
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