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Date:      01 Nov 1999 17:29:59 -0500
From:      Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stpcpy()
Message-ID:  <87puxt976g.fsf@mired.eh.local>
In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:03:46 -0800"
References:  <19991031225429.A10904@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911012004.NAA00280@usr02.primenet.com> <19991101130346.E808@dragon.nuxi.com>

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"David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> writes:

> > > > 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.

I have a Borland Turbo C V2 manual copyright 1988 with stpcpy in it.
I don't think I have a V1 manual to check.

-- 
Kevin Street
street@iname.com




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