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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: string comparisons in C
Message-ID: <1989Jul19.025440.5853@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Wed, 19 Jul 89 02:54:40 GMT

In article <447ec923.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP> covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
>...I have found out that pnmatch() once existed in Version 7 (MINIX is
>Version 7) UNIX.

Can you cite a reference for this?  It wasn't in the V7 that utzoo ran
until a year ago -- and our distribution tape came direct from Bell Labs.

>I did look up pnmatch() and it is not in the ANSI Draft C. But neither is the 
>regexp() function mentioned elsewhere.

However, something very much like my regexp functions is likely to appear
in Son of Posix (1003.2, that is -- standardizing commands turned out to
be a good time to make some additions to the libraries).
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