Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: scanf() Message-ID: <1782@botter.cs.vu.nl> Date: 11 Dec 87 14:40:54 GMT References: <782@louie.udel.EDU> Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam Lines: 10 In article <782@louie.udel.EDU> KIMMEL%ecs.umass.edu@relay.cs.net (Matt Kimmel) writes: >I just got Minix v1.2, and I like it a lot. However, when I try to >compile a C program that calls scanf(), I get a message to the effect >of " _scanf not resolved". Am I missing something? Or is there no scanf() There is a scanf in libsrc.a, but it is not included in libc.a. You have to compile it yourself with cc -LIB -c scanf.c and put in in the library. It was omitted from libc.a because there was no room on that diskette! Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)