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Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 20:51:57 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: rand() or random()
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At 13.39 1997-11-16 +0200, you wrote:
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>On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:
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>> Well, that's not the point. I can't remember reading this anywhere when
>> downloading DJGPP.  Is random() the only funciton with this restriction, or
>> are there others?
>
>There are others.  `malloc' family and the `time' family (ctime,
>gmtime, localtime, tzset etc.) are two modules that come to mind.

Well, let me just ask you this then... If I make a program which uses
malloc() (which probably most programs do), without mentioning BSD or
whoever made that, am I breaking the copyright then?  Because if I am, I am
sure that a lot of people developing programs with DJGPP do!

-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --

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