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. -- NASA is into artificial | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology stupidity. - Jerry Pournelle | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu