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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NBBY
Message-ID: <9319@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Jan 89 04:19:09 GMT
References: <2800@nuchat.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2800@nuchat.UUCP> orion@nuchat.UUCP (Roland Dunkerley) writes:
>Can anyone tell me what the symbol NBBY (#defined in sys/param.h under
>4.3 BSD, I think) represents, ...

Number of Bits in a BYte (usually 8).

>I'm working on porting the BSD ipc facilities to System V Rel 3.0 / 80386.

What IPC facilities??  If you mean sockets, emulate them via a user-mode
library similar to the TLI interfaces.