What’s the deal with OLDNAMES.LIB?

Set the time machine to 1988. The C language has not yet been standardized. Everybody had their own libraries for doing stuff, and some of them even pretended to be compatible with each other. The Microsoft C compiler, for example, came with a bunch of functions like unlink and stat to provide sort-of compatibility with Unix-sort-of source code. The post What’s the deal with <CODE>OLDNAMES.LIB</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing....

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