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From: rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: BSD rindex, etc.
Message-ID: <5570500@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 23:57:16 GMT
References: <8155@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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>Be aware that linking in this routines may cause your application to
>behave differently by redefining signal().

> If their application was originally written for a BSD environment, it
> may well *want* to behave differently; it may be depending on
> 4.2andupBSD "signal()" behavior, rather than "traditional" "signal()"
> behavior.

Both good points.  If you don't want to suck in stuff from libBSD.a
that's in libc.a, just do

    cc ... -lc -lBSD -lc

Rob