From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 1 14:31:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C81814A0E for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:31:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA09003 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:31:38 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA76101 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:31:37 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591F9152C6 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:30:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.64.136.188]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991101223000.NYVN3040.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:30:00 -0800 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA82710; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 17:29:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from kws) To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stpcpy() References: <19991031225429.A10904@dragon.nuxi.com> <199911012004.NAA00280@usr02.primenet.com> <19991101130346.E808@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Kevin Street Date: 01 Nov 1999 17:29:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:03:46 -0800" Message-ID: <87puxt976g.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 17 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "Biscayne" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" 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