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- From: rcoadh@kultarr.co.rmit.oz.AU (Alexander Doktorovich)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: vsscanf
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 09:32:23 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- Hi,
- I am writing in the hope than someone out there has a public domain
- version of VSSCANF() source.
- Can someone please save the rest of my hair (there ain't much to save!) and
- send it to me. It's for non-commercial usage and I will be very grateful.
- It can use other ANSI C libraries ofcourse,
- Alex Doktorovich.
-
- PS.
- My project involves some simulation, so I wrote the program on PC's
- Turbo C2. My thinking went like this - C is a portable language, hence I
- will write and prototype the program on the PC, and then downloaded it to our
- SUN2/Cray to make the simulation time reasonable.
- Unfortunately, Turbo C has a vsscanf() which is pretty handy, (thank you,
- Mr Borland, you scum-bag!) which I incorporated into all of my modules.
- Why was I so stupid to incorporate non-ANSI C function into my to-be
- uploaded code? Well, Turbo C manual states that vsscanf() is available
- on UNIX V, unfortunately, as I found out from MAN command, on our SUNs
- there ain't no vsscanf().
- Unfortunately, I am not a hot-shot programmer and am quite incapable of
- writing my own vsscanf() without spending tones of time.
- Why was vsscanf() not incorporated into ANSI C when its complementory
- function vsprintf() was, `beats me'!
-