From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 24 11:23:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA02441 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 11:23:34 -0700 Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.97.216]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA02433 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 11:23:31 -0700 Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA00731; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 11:19:03 -0700 From: "Steven G. Kargl" Message-Id: <199507241819.LAA00731@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: your mail To: ccjason@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu (Jason Gabler) Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 11:19:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507241610.JAA29176@quadrophenia.ucdavis.edu> from "Jason Gabler" at Jul 24, 95 09:10:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 964 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk According to Jason Gabler: > > > I was wondering if you have heard of the lack of > [fcg]cvt and [fcg]convert in FreeBSD libraries and include files? > I have found these functions on SunOS, Solaris, and HP-UX. I figured > since they are on SunOS (and I believ they are POSIX) they would > be in FreeBSD. I have searched the libraries, the include files, tons > of brains of friends and other FreeBSD users to find these functions > or their equivalents. > Could you perhaps point me in the right direction or let me > know if they or some equivlanets simply dont exist? > > Oh, and if me getting an answer to this question requires me to be > on this list, please add me, thanx. > These functions are not part of ANSI C (See Portability and the C Language by R. Jaeschke). I don't know their status with respect to POSIX, I doubt they're required by POSIX. Sprintf(), which is part of ANSI C and FreeBSD, provides the functionality of [fcg]cvt. sgk