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Re: problems building abc

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From: Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1991 02:46
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As quoted from <1991Jan01.211524.18484@kithrup.COM> by sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan):
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| In article <SCHULTE.91Jan1200851@sun0.thp.uni-koeln.de> schulte@thp.uni-koeln.de (Martin Schulte) writes:
| >>But the big question - which I have reported to the authors - is what is
| >>the call to remove _really_ supposed to be?  Remove() deletes files.  It
| >                                              ^^^^^^^^
| >>doesn't look like that is what is wanted here at all.
| >
| >I only took a short look on the sources, why do you think it should remove
| >files ?
| 
| 	  remove - removes filename
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And, lest anyone wonder, remove() is in both recent BSD (2.9 and later, 4.2
and later, at least) and recent System V (SVR3.2 has it; I didn't have it
on our SVR3.1 system at work).  It's *real* risky to use that name for a
private function of a program.

++Brandon
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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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Subject: Re: problems building abc
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.024629.12954@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 4 Jan 91 02:46:29 GMT
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