Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!maxim!prc
From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt UNIX
Message-ID: <780@maxim.erbe.se>
Date: 24 Aug 89 09:18:36 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <10793@smoke.BRL.MIL> <164@spam.ua.oz> <10802@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Sweden
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In article <10802@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>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.

>It may not be distributed in commercial releases, but I guarantee that
>some UNIX system in Australia does have all the usual UNIX crypt code,
>obtained at a time when nobody was paying much attention to this matter.

You get it if you buy a UNIX source license. Some computer companies in
Europe distributes both the crypt command and the library function with
the UNIX'es for their box'es. And many (some?) U.S. computer manufacturers
provides the crypt function in the library, even though they not always
includes the crypt command.

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          Robert Claeson      E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se
	  ERBE DATA AB