Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: stricmp/strnicmp portability question Date: 12 Mar 1996 00:16:42 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4i2fpa$16o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4i0abr$9i0@news.cic.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <4i0abr$9i0@news.cic.net> To: pauls@cic.net (Paul Southworth) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15427 comp.sys.sun.admin:63726 pauls@cic.net (Paul Southworth) writes: > I'm trying to port a package to FreeBSD that was developed on SunOS. > The developers made heavy use of the stricmp(3) and strnicmp(3) > functions. As far as I can tell, they do not exist on FreeBSD. > Additionally, although they're in the SunOS libc, they are not > mentioned in the SunOS "string functions" man page. :( Is it perchance the ``str[n]casecmp'' functions what you mean? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)