strings.h

[Karl Denninger]

In article <8 at robecdc.UUCP> ghost at robecdc.UUCP (William.A.Sneed) writes:
>In article <1762 at milton.acs.washington.edu> milton at milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) writes:
>>I keep running into the same error...'cannot find strings.h'  It 
>>apparently did not come with my developmnent system, but a lot of
>>programs seem to expect it as a standard library...Any help appreciated..
>>
>>Steve Milton...milton at milton.u.washington.edu
>
>Who what when where why how  hunh!?!
>	If you have SCO it was included
>	If your program has #include "strings.h" that's your problem

No, that is not the problem.

>	Should be <strings.h> to use the system's library

Actually either will work -- if the file is there.

There is no difference between the delimiters.  Try it sometime.  CONVENTION 
is that you use " " as delimiters on local include files, and < > on system
files, but the compiler will search in both places with either delimiter.

The problem is that /usr/include/strings.h is not in the Xenix distribution;
that file is called "string.h".  Linking one to the other is an acceptable 
solution if you don't like hacking on source code.

>From the /etc/perms directory:
soft:SOFT	f644	bin/bin		1	./usr/include/string.h	   D03
soft:DOSDEV	f644	bin/bin		1	./usr/include/dos/string.h D01

As you can see, there is no "strings.h" file!

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