Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: SysV bcopy? Message-ID: <216000009@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 20 Mar 89 16:32:00 GMT References: <114@sherpa.UUCP> Lines: 8 Nf-ID: #R:sherpa.UUCP:114:s.cs.uiuc.edu:216000009:000:361 Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll Mar 20 10:32:00 1989 Out of curriosity, why in the world does bcopy have the source and destination backwards from everything else? Just to confuse people trying to learn how to use it? Alan M. Carroll "And then you say, carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu We have the Moon, so now the Stars..." - YES CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll