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  1. Path: mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail
  2. From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Libraries
  5. Date: 25 Mar 1996 17:33:27 -0800
  6. Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
  7. Message-ID: <4j7hh7INN980@mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
  8. References: <4j48sn$kg@airdmhor.gen.nz>
  9. NNTP-Posting-Host: mayne.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca
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  11. In article <4j48sn$kg@airdmhor.gen.nz>,
  12. Simon Hosie <gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz> wrote:
  13.  >  Why do so many DOS compilers come with DOS extensions that behave almost
  14.  >identically to the standard ANSI or POSIX functions?  It it just to maintain
  15.  >PC incompatibility?
  16.  
  17. I don't think you will find any DOS compiler that even remotely implements
  18. POSIX. Now if you _half_ implement POSIX, you have already broken the standard,
  19. so why bother making compliant the calls you _do_ have?
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