Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!cbnews!lvc
From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: getch() and getche() in MSC 4.0
Message-ID: <1737@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 88 15:26:55 GMT
References: <10508@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <10523@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <236@shockeye.UUCP> <8764@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <8764@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
>All C implementations should provide toupper() via <ctype.h>.
	...
>Don't use _toupper(), which may not even exist in many implementations.

A related suggestion...  I have a program that makes '_' an alphabetic
by changing _ctype[].  This was a bad idea since 1) the "array" has a
different name on different systems, eg. BSD vs. AT&T, and 2) the #define
symbols for character class definition, eg. _U vs. _UPPER (in uSoft) vary
as well.

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, cbnews!lvc lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM