[comp.unix.wizards] AT&T encrypt vs 4.?

VM64X%KSUVM.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (GS46) (12/11/87)

I had a similar experience writing a program that accessed the encrypt
system call.  I can't tell you for sure not having used SCO's product
However the problem I had in porting what worked on 4.2/4.3 BSD over to
System V.2 on a 3B15 and/or 3B5 was that the version of encrypt that was
included in the "normal" library ignores the "edflag" parameter thus
making it possible to encrypt but not decrypt.  The way I finally
solved the problem in my case was to include the code for the 4.2 system
call into my program as another function when I ported the code over
(renamed to eliminate function re-definition errors).
Acknowledge-To: Gary D. Strohm (GS46) <VM64X@KSUVM>