From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "Missing" functions
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 00:45:37 -0700
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John M. Aldrich wrote:

> stricmp() (note spelling) and strcasecmp() are both in the DJGPP
> library.  Since they perform identical functions, I assume they are
> named as such for portability with Borland and other compilers.  A
> simple look in the libc docs in the string functions category would have
> revealed this ("info libc func string").

This is true.  stricmp (and strcmpi; as I recall, they were the same) in
Borland C, but still, stricmp/strcmpi is non-ANSI and thus is not
portable.

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