Re: Apollo speaks (was How ANSI is Apollo's cc 6.7 (SR 10.2))

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From: Ron Guilmette
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 1990 16:09

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In article <4cc44d3a.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> smv@apollo.hp.com writes:
>
>In other areas, <ctype.h> for example, it was not possible to provide the
>functionality required by ANSI C with the existing symbols.  The changes
>made to solve these problems will be with us in both strict and extended
>ANSI modes.

I'd like to see some elaboration on this.  What exactly is so special about
<ctype.h>?
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