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From: prihodko@fas.harvard.edu (Andrew Prihodko)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: strptime()
Date: 23 Mar 1997 18:45:13 GMT
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In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.970321133651.2565A-100000@enteract.com>, 
kdulzo@enteract.com says...
>
>Does anyone know of any plans to or anywhere i can locate the source code
>for this function.  apparently its a new(?)er function for stdtime in
>libc.  It isn't in 3.0-SNAP nor -current and before i start coding, i
>figured i'd ask?  AFAIK This function is merely the reverse of strftime()
>[char * -> struct tm]

Actually, I have run into a problem with this function.  I was trying to 
compile a beta version of MSQL 2.0 and I got a link error saying that _strptime 
was not found.  Is it supposed to be in other kinds of UNIX?

In any case, please tell me if you find a solution... 

Andrew Prihodko
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prihodko@fas.harvard.edu