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From: jcoffin{at}taeus.com
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com
At 08:21 PM 8/4/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>At 12:52 AM 8/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
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>> * Author: Robert Todd
>>
>>Hi folks! Was wondering if MSVC would support the porting of *NIX based
>>C++ code over to Win32?
>
>Yes and no. MSVC out of the box supports _some_ POSIX-like functions (e.g
>the whole open/creat/lread/lwrite family) but nowhere close to all of them
>(e.g. fork is missing).
Oops -- that should (of course) be open/read/write/lseek, not lread or
lwrite (which are purely MS inventions left over from Win16).
Later,
Jerry.
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