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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: I can't find bcopy in the man pages.
Message-ID: <884@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 16:48:17 GMT
References: <14508@joyce.istc.sri.com>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <14508@joyce.istc.sri.com> robert@spam.istc.sri.com () writes:
>
>    On an HP9000/300
>    ----------------
>
>    I'm trying to run a program which uses the BSD-supported function
>    "bcopy", and I cannot for the life of me find bcopy in the HP manuals.
>    I know that you must include the libBSD.a library to compile, but I

>    just want to look at the stupid man page.  A "man -k bcopy" claims
>    there is no such reference, and I cannot find a reference in the
>    (poorly formatted and arranged) HP hardcopy manuals.  Of course,
>    a "man bstring" which is what bcopy, et. al., are under on the Sun
>    won't help me on the HP.
>
>    I have three questions: (1) where is the damned bcopy entry, (2) why,

Bcopy is new in the HP-UX 6.0 release. You find the following info
in the file /etc/newconfig/Update_info/to.6.0:

"Berkeley Compatibility Library
------------------------------

        Dup2(2) has been removed from  libBSD.a and libV7.a and moved to
        libc.a (leaving  libV7.a  empty).  A number of new routines have
        been  added to  libBSD.a  to  simplify  the  effort  of  porting
        applications   developed  in  the   Berkeley   environment.  The
        following routines have been added:

                bcmk
                bcopy
                bzero
                index
                rindex
                getwd
                killpg
                signal
                sigvec

        It should be noted that there is a conflict  between  the use in
        libBSD.a of signal (which follows BSD  semantics) and the signal
        system call provided in libc.a which adheres exactly to System V
        semantics.  Applications  using signal(2) and linked using -lBSD
        ..."
  

>    oh why, are the HP manuals so completely hopeless (seriously!), and

I like HP's manuals. I hate Suns "Reformatting page. Wait ..." :->

-Bo

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