_doscan

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.umd.edu
Thu Nov 9 20:17:44 AEST 1989


In article <21404 at adm.BRL.MIL> jp27+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Jacques Parker) writes:
>Could someone send me the specifications for _doscan.
>(What it returns & what arguments it takes.)

It has none.  It is an internal routine which may not (read: does not)
exist in future (read: present) implementations.

Using _doscan in code that is not part of the stdio library is, to
paraphrase Dennis Ritchie, `unwarranted chumminess with the implementation'.
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