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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: fast code and no morals
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 17:24:41 EST
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In article <814@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.ARPA writes:
>In a hosted (as opposed to stand-alone) environment, yes, C requires
>that programs be able to obtain arguments specified at the time they
>are run.  The Software Tools people have accomplished this on
>virtually every major mainframe and minicomputer OS, so it is doable.
>
>Yes, C requires support of both upper- and lower-case characters.
>Modern Cybers claim to have support for 8- or 12-bit characters.
>

I believe Doug already knows this, but ANSI C does not require command line
arguments to be dual-case.  If the environment can only support one case,
command line args MUST be mapped to lower case.
	Michael Meissner