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Re: "travesty" doesn't work on BSD Unix

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From: peter.l.berghold
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1989 14:11
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From article <17497@rpp386.cactus.org>, by jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II):
> In article <13533@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>>Sigh, yet another broken program.
>>
>>% travesty
>>this is fun
>>^D
>>this iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii [repeated forever]
> 
> Travesty also didn't work on SCO Xenix.
> 
> Just another data point.

After redefining some of the function calls as follows:

	srandom		to 	srand
	random		to	rand
	bcmp		to	strncmp
	bcopy		to	stncpy

in order to HOPEFULLY make it compatible with HPUX, it still didn't work.

	:-(



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From: plb@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (peter.l.berghold)
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Subject: Re: "travesty" doesn't work on BSD Unix
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Date: 26 Dec 89 14:11:56 GMT
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