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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: <string.h> vs <strings.h>
Message-ID: <4354@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 88 14:43:35 GMT
References: <456@mrsvr.UUCP> <8649@smoke.ARPA> <14002@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <14002@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>... and in the future, expect the 4BSD <strings.h> to simply be a
>link to <string.h>.  In the meantime, just use the latter...

Writing portable code would be less frustrating if we had this
preprocessor conditional:

#if exists(<strings.h>)
#include <strings.h>
#else
#include <string.h>
#endif
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi