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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:01:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: libc_r
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Hi, I read the pthread(3) man page and it says I need to build 
libc_r myself in order to use threads.  I could do this, but
its inconvenient.  How come it isn't being distributed in the
binary distributions?  

-josh