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[possibly OT] the comparison function in qsort

I am sorry, I meant qsort function not quicksort (I know qsort might
not implement quicksort) and since I am constrained to use google I
cannot reply to my previous post and hence his new post, apologies for
the inconvienience.
Nov 13 '05 #1
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