--- code/trunk/pcreposix.3 2007/02/24 21:38:01 3 +++ code/tags/pcre-2.07/pcreposix.3 2007/02/24 21:39:11 38 @@ -26,9 +26,15 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION This set of functions provides a POSIX-style API to the PCRE regular expression -package. See \fBpcre (3)\fR for a description of the native API, which contains -additional functionality. The functions described here are just wrapper -functions that ultimately call the native API. +package. See the \fBpcre\fR documentation for a description of the native API, +which contains additional functionality. + +The functions described here are just wrapper functions that ultimately call +the native API. Their prototypes are defined in the \fBpcreposix.h\fR header +file, and on Unix systems the library itself is called \fBpcreposix.a\fR, so +can be accessed by adding \fB-lpcreposix\fR to the command for linking an +application which uses them. Because the POSIX functions call the native ones, +it is also necessary to add \fR-lpcre\fR. As I am pretty ignorant about POSIX, these functions must be considered as experimental. I have implemented only those option bits that can be reasonably @@ -132,4 +138,4 @@ .br Phone: +44 1223 334714 -Copyright (c) 1997 University of Cambridge. +Copyright (c) 1997-1999 University of Cambridge.