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From: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strdup() "need source"
Message-ID: <177@quad.uucp>
Date: 17 Jun 89 08:56:56 GMT
References: <124@sssphx.UUCP> <2550092@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Reply-To: dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg)
Organization: Quadric Systems, Richfield MN
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In article <2550092@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>> I am trying to compile big banner on a unix-pc, SYSV 3.5 and
>> need the function strdup()...
>
>THE !&$@*#*! SVID REQUIRES that function in the !@#&!@?!@ BASE SYSTEM!
>
>Are you telling me that an AT&T system that says it's System V Release 3.5
>DOES NOT HAVE this trivial function?

No, the above party simply misrepresented his operating system.  He
is talking about Unix 3.5 for the Unix PC, which is a very different
thing from System V r3.

As to the query, strdup() is not provided, but then again the Unix
PC's OS is kind of like a System V which little bits stolen from about
everything out there.  (An ancient cron, but shared libraries? ;')

Anyway, someone has already posted a simple version of this trivial
function, and I've drifted far enough from the topic of C for one
day...

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