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From: erc@khijol.UUCP (Ed Carp, aka Mr. Ed the talking horse...)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: strings.h
Message-ID: <1241@khijol.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 05:19:06 GMT
References: <7472@tank.uchicago.edu> <1762@milton.acs.washington.edu> <25CFA63A.156D@marob.masa.com>
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In article <25CFA63A.156D@marob.masa.com> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:

>Someone did exactly this on the machines here, a while back.
>It breaks nothing, and eliminates one porting nuisance.

Be sure that you put

#define index strchr
#define rindex strrchr

in your string.h file, or your linker may complain if you port BSD code to
*NIX.
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