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From: rodean@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD rindex, etc.
Message-ID: <5570491@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 16:58:08 GMT
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In article <8155@milton.u.washington.edu> jdunlap@milton.u.washington.edu (John Dunlap) writes:
> Some time ago, I recall a discussion about the BSD string functions
> being available in HP-UX.  I am looking for rindex and strings.h
> among other things.  I would like to have easier porting of BSD
> applications to HP-UX.

Well there's good news and bad news.  The good news is that [r]index,
bcopy, bzero, bcmp,and str[n]casecmp, along with a <strings.h>, are all
going to be in libc in the next major release of HP-UX.  The bad news is
that doesn't help you for now.

I believe that most people use #define's to map [r]index into str[r]chr.
See string(3c) for the complete list of string functions.

Bruce Rodean
rodean@hpfcla.HP.COM

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