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- From: jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
- Subject: Contents/use of stuff in 3B2's libPW.a?
- Organization: Tramway Unix Systems
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 05:46:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.054642.8165@squid.tram.com>
- Summary: man pages for the rest of this stuff?
- Keywords: CPLU 4.1 PWB
- Sender: jeffrey@squid.tram.com (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
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- While looking for a pre-existing version of alloca for my machine (a
- 3b2/400 with CPLU 4.1), I started snooping through the libraries on
- the system. The one library with a lot of neat-sounding stuff was
- libPW - the Programmers Work Bench. Well, I went looking through the
- man pages, and found awfully little on this stuff, and would like some
- info on exactly what some of these routines do. Here's what I found:
-
- abspath.o - ?
- anystr.o - ?
- curdir.o - The directory (3X) routines? Maybe more.
- fdfopen.o - ?
- giveup.o - ?
- imatch.o - ?
- index.o - BSD index routine?
- lockit.o - ?
- logname.o - ?
- move.o - ?
- patoi.o - something ascii to integer?
- patol.o - something ascii to long?
- regcmp - RegEx(3X)
- regex.o - RegEx(3X)
- rename.o - the missing rename(2) call?
- repeat.o - ?
- repl.o - ?
- satoi.o - something ascii to integer?
- setsig.o - BSD signal stuff?
- sname.o - ?
- strend.o - ?
- substr.o - ?
- trnslat.o - ?
- userdir.o - Some novel way to access password file fields?
- username.o - More password file mucking?
- verify.o - ?
- any.o - Used in anystr.o and verify.o above
- xalloc.o - ? -----
- xcreat.o - ? |
- xlink.o - ? | These all appear to go together
- xopen.o - ? | into one suite of x? routintes
- xpipe.o - ? |
- xunlink.o - ? |
- xwrite.o - ? |
- xmsg.o - ? -------
- alloca.o - alloca - no man page for this BTW
- cat.o - used by x? routines above
- dname.o - used by x? routines above
- fatal.o - used by x? routines above
- clean.o - used in x? routines above
- userexit.o - used in x? routines above
- zero.o - ?
- zeropad.o - ?
-
- Can anyone out there fill me in on what I am most likely missing here?
- They (AT&T) couldn't really have given a library without any
- documentation on what the routines do, could they? 1/2 :-)
- There is no guarantee that I hit upon all the "internal" routines.
- Some may never have been meant to be called from anything other than
- a preceeding library routine (like fatal and clean).
-
- j
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- Jeffrey L. Bromberger ------- System Manager ------- Tramway Unix Systems
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