fast code and no morals

meissner at dg_rtp.UUCP meissner at dg_rtp.UUCP
Mon Feb 17 08:24:41 AEST 1986


In article <814 at brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn at 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



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