Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: book review: J. Berry, C++ Programming
Message-ID: <1988Sep24.205501.26347@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <185@ai.etl.army.mil>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 88 20:55:01 GMT

In article <185@ai.etl.army.mil> mike@ai.etl.army.mil. (Mike McDonnell) writes:
>One final thing; the examples are excessively dependent on System V
>Unix.  The string function strtok() is used in several examples and is
>not on my system (4.3BSD on a VAX)...

Have you tried compiling the code?  I've been told that the System V string
functions are there but undocumented.  If not, it's a bug (and even if so,
the lack of documentation is a bug), since a public-domain implementation
existed well before 4.3 was packaged up.
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