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Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ??
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:04:25 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199801260111.LAA00582@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Jan 26, 98 11:41:12 am
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> What is there that gcvt does that the *printf() family don't?

yeah.. gotcha :-)

> Should be a trivial patch, if that's all it needs.  You might prod the 
> YACL maintainer to avoid the use of platform-specific quirks.

yup:-) most systems seem to have the cvt() family though.. as to why..
it's completely redundant

I'll commit a port of YACL, Freetype and xfstt. Expect them somewhere next
week.
 
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