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Date:      Mon, 1 Nov 1999 22:02:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stpcpy()
Message-ID:  <199911012202.PAA05490@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991101130346.E808@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at Nov 1, 99 01:03:46 pm

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> > > > Yes. So what? You are suffering from the "NIH" disease. (BTW, stpcpy is 
> > > > not first and is not GNUism/Linuxism).
> > > 
> > > Then where did it come from?
> > 
> > Borland Turbo-C, and thereafter it was quickly adopted by Microsoft,
> 
> Do you have a date?  GNU fileutils has a stpcpy.c file copyrighted 1989.

1986.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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