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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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