From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:59:58 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] History of strncpy In-Reply-To: <0E95A92F-43AD-4DA2-9921-57265426830B@ronnatalie.com> References: <5CE5BCC9-06CF-423D-AEBA-636952773EDA@ronnatalie.com> <12408BE9-5FC8-4ECA-93C1-38D27EF1DA23@ieee.org> <0A836D4A-A8D0-4A5D-98F3-AA962CC38EF0@ronnatalie.com> <0E95A92F-43AD-4DA2-9921-57265426830B@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Ronald Natalie wrote: > It seems to have happened in the revamping of libc into seperate > subdirectories. Tanks Ron - that makes sense. As I said, there were functions like that in other languages, plus their was beginning to be a number of library toolkits for C that people were cons-ing up in that timeframe --> particularly by stripping helper routines from other programs. Horton & Joy's termcap and eventually curses came to live that way. I just did a little searching of my own code archives and sure enough I found a file called support.c that has the functions len, copy and comp in it, which I must have used pre-V7 {code's ugly too - so it was clearly early C for me - I was still fighting the one-true-brace-style having come over from SAIL, Algol and BLISS}. Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: