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- From: gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz (Simon Hosie)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Libraries
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 09:43:33 +1200
- Organization: Airdmhor : a couple of BBS's, a bunch of people, and a cat.
- Message-ID: <4jhli5$5aa@airdmhor.gen.nz>
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- In article <4j48sn$kg@airdmhor.gen.nz>,
- Simon Hosie <gumboot@airdmhor.gen.nz> wrote:
- > 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?
-
- Kazimir Kylheku:
- > I don't think you will find any DOS compiler that even remotely implements
- > POSIX. Now if you _half_ implement POSIX, you have already broken the standard,
- > so why bother making compliant the calls you _do_ have?
-
- Well... both Watcom and Borland syupport open() and stuff and opendir()
- and stuff - that's a start, isn't it? (I can't be bothered looking up heaps
- of functions to see what classification they are)
-