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From: geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Conflict between SVR4 and Cnews getdate.
Keywords: getdate
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.191947.17024@world.std.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 19:19:47 GMT
References: <1991Jun2.203518.4101@iclswe.icl.se>
Organization: Software Tool & Die Netnews Research Center
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Lars Tunkrans:
>In SVR4 we have a getdate(3C) function which obviously comes into 
>conflict with Cnews [sic] getdate.

More properly, that should be "A News getdate", I believe, or "Steve
Bellovin's getdate" rather than "C News getdate".  We plan to stop
using it eventually.

Ah, yes, SVR4 is just full of botches.  The SVR4 development people
obviously considered 10 years of existing practice with getdate
unimportant.

>My quick and dirty soulution was to rename Cnews [sic] "getdate" to
>"getdat", this involved changes in just 4 source files in Cnews [sic],
>less than 10 individual places in the code.

It would probably be easier to just add " -Dgetdate=getdat" or
" -Dgetdate=getdate_unpolluted_by_SVR4" to COPTS everywhere it appears
in conf/doit.bin.
-- 
Geoff Collyer		world.std.com!geoff, uunet.uu.net!geoff