SysV bcopy?

[Chris Torek]

In article <9901 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>There are people who think that "copy FROM TO" is a more natural order.
>Presumably the fellow who wrote the first bcopy() thought so.

... along with the fellow who wrote /bin/cp.

In actuality, it is strcpy() that is `backwards', supposedly done that way
to make

	strcpy(dst, "foo");

`feel' more like the assignment

	dst = "foo";

found in languages with second-or-first-class arrays.
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