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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!rucs!rucs2!bmyers 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 Lines: 30 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. :) > >+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ >| Kendall Bennett, | Internet: | >| Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, | kjb@godzilla.cgl.citri.edu.au | >| Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au | >| Victoria, AUSTRALIA. | | >+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+ >| CoSysop (Bossman), PC Connection Australia: +61 3 688 0909 | >+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Brandon Myers bmyers@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu