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From: jnall%FSU.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (John Nall 904-644-5241)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: tolower to _tolower   why?
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Date: 18 Feb 89 23:07:59 GMT
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The Ver 1.4 stuff that ast posted apparently changed tolower() to
_tolower() in ctype.h.  I've had to go into a couple of programs and
change the calls to reflect that when I recompiled them, as they were
getting unsatisfied externals.  Obviously this is no big problem, so
I am more curious than anything else -- why was the change made?  In
particular, to make it more puzzling, the change seems to have been
originally made by Terence (sp?) Holm, and the program that brought it
to my attention was intcalc which he posted, and which uses tolower
rather than _tolower!  Strange.!

John Nall
BITNET: jnall@rai.fsu.edu
ARPA-Internet:  nall@nu.cs.fsu.edu

Also (since I'll probably be flamed anyway, for asking a stupid question,
) why does find / -name termcap* -print not find /etc/termcap?  (It will
find /usr/junk/termcap.sh, so apparently the * keeps it from finding just
plain old termcap).