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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!208.9.142.31!news.metrocon.com!metrocon.com!smith From: John Smith <smith@metrocon.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: "_p" in library files Date: 15 Jun 1997 00:08:05 GMT Organization: MetroCon Communications, Inc. METROCON.COM Lines: 4 Message-ID: <5nvbp5$phi$1@news.metrocon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: metrocon.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961101] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42895 Some of the library files in /usr/lib have a ending in "_p (eg: libc_p.a). What does the p stand for and how do i use these libraries?