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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: System V manuals (was Re: What real non-UNIX 'C' compilers...)
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 22:06:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 22:06:37 1987
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You can go anywhere you like. Since we don't get comp.unix.questions I'll
never see it. Don't forget to write :->. In the meantime...

In article <30458@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> [ it's not the REAL system V manual ]

Fine. They wised up. I'll keep an eye out for something better.

> > I didn't say it was in section 2 or section 3. I said it was in BA_SYS...
> I quote here from your original article:

That was in my original article, but what about the half dozen iterations
since then...

> > Except that the O/S *manuals* follow the SVID...
> > "read the manual. Library routines are section 3" "section 3? I don't
> > have a section 3" "What? Let me look at that... they must be kidding".

That doesn't say BA_LIB, either. That just says it's not in a section 3. I'm
sure I mentioned BA_SYS somewhere. Anyway, here's a real question:

Why does the SVID stick read() and fread() in the same place?
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