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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SysV bcopy?
Message-ID: <16487@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 10:40:11 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <9901@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>There are people who think that "copy FROM TO" is a more natural order.
>Presumably the fellow who wrote the first bcopy() thought so.

... along with the fellow who wrote /bin/cp.

In actuality, it is strcpy() that is `backwards', supposedly done that way
to make

	strcpy(dst, "foo");

`feel' more like the assignment

	dst = "foo";

found in languages with second-or-first-class arrays.
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