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Subject: Re: Linking Libraries/Undefined variables
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Date: 18 Aug 89 15:55:33 GMT
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<Date: 17 Aug 89 23:51:28 GMT
<From: jstravis@athena.mit.edu  (John S. Travis)

<In article <2369@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

<- >> You are correct. Tempnam/Tmpnam is a routine in HP-UX C library that lets
<- >> you create temporary files. It is strange that HP Widgets would use a routine
<- >> that is not standardly available ... 

<-"tmpnam" is in POSIX, and "tempnam" isn't.  Given that, it would
<-probably be a good idea to avoid using "tempnam" if you possibly can,
<-since it's less likely to be available in any particular system.
<
<The original problem is that the HPWidgets call the function, not the
<application programmer. Although, i just wrote a makeshift function
<of the same name, and it seems to do the job, i'm surprised HP
<did this.

tempnam *IS* available from Berkeley as well -- it's defined in the src
file lib/libc/compat-sys5/tmpnam.c which is available via anonymous ftp
from uunet.uu.net and probably elsewhere.

David
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