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From: ruud@targon.UUCP (Ruud Harmsen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt unix ibm-pc
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Date: 23 Aug 89 08:39:49 GMT
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In article <164@spam.ua.oz> wvenable@spam.oz.au (Bill Venables) writes:
> Let me confirm (although noone seems to doubt it) that the crypt() facility
> is not available on UNIX machines in Australia, and I must say I find this
> circumstance, although petty, a rather gratuitous insult from Uncle Sam.
>
I presume you are talking about the PROGRAM crypt (in section 1 of the man-
pages), whereas other had the SUBROUTINE crypt(3) in mind.
These two, despite their names, HAVE NOTHING TO DO with each other!

crypt(3) is available on all UNIXes (though not as source), crypt(1) is not.