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In article <KANZE.96Mar7135846@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>,
J. Kanze <kanze@gabi-soft.fr> wrote:
>In article <4he9gg$m9l@pentagon.io.com> jamshid@io.com (Jamshid Afshar)
>writes:
>|> Btw, VC++4's docs say that if mbstowcs()'s wchar_t* destination
>|> argument is NULL then the function doesn't do a conversion of the
>|> multibyte string; it just returns the size needed to store the
>|> multibyte string.
> No mention of it in my copy of the standard.

But mbsrtowcs has the functionality you require.

>|> Also, the VC++4 docs seem to indicate fputws(), a
>|> wchar_t version of fputs(), is "ANSI" compatible.  Standard C doesn't
>|> actually specify any wide-character i/o functions, does it?
> There not in the index, anyway.

Then your copy is out of date. fputws is part of the C Standard.

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