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From: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: setpwent(3)?
Message-ID: <88oA02Pn25bn01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 13 May 89 04:28:12 GMT
References: <3712@rpi.edu>
Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
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Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen House
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In article <3712@rpi.edu> entropy@pawl.rpi.edu (Math Student from Hell) writes:
 >On our 4.2BSD system, the man page for the <pwd.h> functions lists a
 >function called 'setpwent'.  This is what it has to say:
 >What does this function do?  Is it really there, or is it a fib?

Setpwent() "rewinds" the password file so that you can search it multiple times.

 >Reply by email, please.

I tried; it bounced.
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