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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 15:55:17 +0100 (BST)
From: Robin Carey <r.carey@dcs.napier.ac.uk>
To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org>
cc: Robin Carey <r.carey@dcs.napier.ac.uk>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.1.1
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On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Robin Carey wrote:
> 
> > 1) ispunct(3) doesn't work :) It returns TRUE for characters which are
> >    not punctuation. To see what I mean, try this program:
> 
> Reading the manpage, the output of your demonstration program
> looks about right...

Huh ?
Doesn't work on my FreeBSD-2.2.1 system ....
The ispunct(3) routine returns TRUE for characters which are not punctuation
and not in the man page, on my computer anyway.

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