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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SysV bcopy?
Message-ID: <9901@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Mar 89 04:49:11 GMT
References: <114@sherpa.UUCP> <216000009@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <216000009@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Out of curriosity, why in the world does bcopy have the source and destination
>backwards from everything else?

There are people who think that "copy FROM TO" is a more natural order.
Presumably the fellow who wrote the first bcopy() thought so.