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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: C portability between non-UNIX o
Message-ID: <5713@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 15:20:25 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 15:20:25 1984
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> <ctype.h>
>     int isalpha(int);
>     int tolower(int);
>     /* etc. */

I have always thought that there should be a tohostc() macro to
convert an ASCII character back to native host character set
(converse of toascii()).  Also, todigit() to map 3 to '3' and
tonumber() to map '3' to 3.  In other words, macros to support
writing PORTABLE atoi() functions etc.