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- From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Libraries
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 15:17:47 GMT
- Organization: City Zen FM
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- References: <4j48sn$kg@airdmhor.gen.nz>
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- In article <4j48sn$kg@airdmhor.gen.nz>
- gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz "Simon Hosie" writes:
-
- > Why do so many DOS compilers come with DOS extensions that behave almost
- > identically to the standard ANSI or POSIX functions? It it just to maintain
- > PC incompatibility?
-
- They simply access the underlying, incompatible, OS known as dos. Oh, and if
- the dos compiler is a C compiler, then the ANSI function will work just fine.
-
- .splitbung
- --
- * TQ 1.0 * The 'Just So Quotes'.
- I think we're in for a bad spell of wether.
-