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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: How ANSI is Apollo's cc 6.7 (SR 10.2)
Message-ID: <13828@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Sep 90 19:26:42 GMT
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In article <86589@hobbit.UUCP> ndjc@hobbit.UUCP (Nick Crossley) writes:
>I thought all external names starting str[a-z]... were reserved to the
>implementation for future ANSI C string functions, so is strcpyn()
>really illegal?

You put the problem very nicely -- in order to answer your question
we would have to know what the future holds w.r.t. "strcpyn".  Do you?