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+.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" Chris Torek.
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+.\"
+.\" from: @(#)bcopy.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\" $NetBSD: bcopy.3,v 1.15 2015/06/20 04:18:00 dholland Exp $
+.\"
+.Dd May 5, 2012
+.Dt BCOPY 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm bcopy
+.Nd copy byte string
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In strings.h
+.Ft void
+.Fn bcopy "const void *src" "void *dst" "size_t len"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn bcopy
+function
+copies
+.Fa len
+bytes from string
+.Fa src
+to string
+.Fa dst .
+The two strings may overlap.
+If
+.Fa len
+is zero, no bytes are copied.
+.Pp
+This function is obsolete.
+The functions
+.Xr memcpy 3
+and/or
+.Xr memmove 3
+should be used instead.
+Note that
+.Fn bcopy
+takes its
+.Fa src
+and
+.Fa dst
+arguments in the opposite order from these.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr memccpy 3 ,
+.Xr memcpy 3 ,
+.Xr memmove 3 ,
+.Xr strcpy 3 ,
+.Xr strncpy 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn bcopy
+function conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2001 .
+The
+.St -p1003.1-2004
+revision marked it as legacy; the
+.St -p1003.1-2008
+revision removed it from the specification.
+.Sh HISTORY
+A
+.Fn bcopy
+function appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .