Paul Gilmartin writes: <begin extract> I have a colleague who has complained that UNIX callable services exist in too many variants and should likewise be pameterized. I imagine he thinks of such as strcpy(1), strncpy(1), and memcpy(1). <end extract>
This problem can be viewed differently. C and UNIX suffer from what Whitehead called misplaced concreteness. PL/I has the bif translate. C has the two bifs upper and lower but no translate, of which they are special cases. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
