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From: bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (B.Myers)
Subject: Re: Which C library to start hacking?
Message-ID: <1992Sep30.054630.5031@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>
Organization: Radford University
References: <kjb.717312886@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au> <1992Sep24.194515.2603@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <rcskb.717422977@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 05:46:30 GMT
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In article <rcskb.717422977@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU> rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:
>terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>
>>There is a book (by Plauger?) from Prentice Hall on the C library, with
>>a large majority of the functions implemented.  I would hazard a guess
>>that this is publically usable.  I think it's something like "The UNIX
>>C Library" or something similar.  I saw it in Software Plus.
>
>I have P.J. Plauger's book, but I will be using it only for ideas, and
>not taking the code directly from it - you require a license to do this!
>Yes, damn silly if you ask me, but it is a fact of life...
>

I also have P.J. Plauger's book, and have found MANY errors in the code.
therefore it is unadvisable to copy the code even WITH a license. :)

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Brandon Myers
bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu