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From: evil@arcturus.uucp (Wade Guthrie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Difference between char and unsigned char
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.162634.2961@arcturus.uucp>
Date: 24 Jul 90 16:26:34 GMT
Organization: Rockwell International
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> My recommendation is to always use `char *' for text, and do 
> conversions to `unsigned char' only in the context of <ctype.h> 
> functions.

Unless, of course, you need to do byte-style things rather than
character-style things.  In that case, unsigned char can be real
neat!
 
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