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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP status files and wierd dates - revisted.
Message-ID: <4633@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Dec 90 19:19:33 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>This might be a good time to repost my 'ago' program for Sys V.

Or, more correctly, for any system that has:

1) "getopt()" (although, as the README notes, you can pick this up for
   those systems that don't have it)

and

2) "cftime()".

More systems than System V have "getopt()", and not all System V systems
have "cftime()", so it's not really a program for "System V", it's a
program for System V Release 3.1 and later.

Adding an option to use "strftime()" or "cftime()" would make it a
program for more systems; "strftime()" is in the ANSI C standard,
"cftime()" isn't, so many systems have only "strftime()" (e.g., SunOS
4.1), and I expect future systems to be more likely to have "strftime()"
than "cftime()" (although some may have both).


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