Why is tolower behave different???

Steve V. Hodsdon shodsdon at elrond.CalComp.COM
Wed Jul 25 22:15:10 AEST 1990


In article <174 at n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US> wht at 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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