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From: shodsdon@elrond.CalComp.COM (Steve V. Hodsdon)
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Subject: Re: Why is tolower behave different???
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Date: 25 Jul 90 12:15:10 GMT
References: <2841@elrond.CalComp.COM> <1863@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1990Jul23.040004.12292@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <174@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
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In article <174@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker) writes:
>
>System 5-derived tolower() absolutely coverts, while BSD 
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Just aother little gotcha: Motorola's sysV68 R3.5 checks first before
converting to lower (or upper). There is the macro's _tolower and _toupper
which assume the 'proper case'.
 
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>Warren Tucker, TuckerWare   emory!n4hgf!wht or wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US
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