Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!mike From: mike@mks.UUCP (Michael Brookbank) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: crypt Summary: MKS CRYPT Keywords: crypt libraries Message-ID: <588@mks.UUCP> Date: 30 Nov 88 16:41:55 GMT References: <1238@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <23@kepler1.UUCP> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 19 > >I've just started writing an application in which I need crypt (the password > >encryption function), but much to my surprise I've discovered that it's not > >there (Xenix 2.2.3). It is in the lint library (/usr/lib/llibc), but it's > >not in any of the object libraries (/lib/[LMS]libc.a). Does anyone know why > >SCO left this one out? > I think SCO doesn't ship CRYPT automatically because it is illegal for an American company to ship CRYPT out of the US for security reasons. Rather than have separate inventory they deliver only on request. If it is any easier my firm, MKS Inc., has a product called MKS Trilogy which includes CRYPT, AWK and the Korn Shell designed to run on SCO XENIX 286 & 386, Microport, and 386ix. -- Mike Brookbank Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!mike 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043