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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Lgamma? gamma? Helloooooo Gamma???
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
References: <1993Aug3.104429.26643@husc14.harvard.edu>
Message-ID: <CB7EJI.MvD@kithrup.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 22:01:51 GMT
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In article <1993Aug3.104429.26643@husc14.harvard.edu> haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:
>Also, in stty([23]?) Gnuplot tries to refer to a parameter called
>IUCLC, (Input Uppercase to lowercase?), which doesn't apparently
>exist. (On checking Steven's "Advanced Programming in the Unix
>Environment" I note that this is a SVR4 extension) Any plans to
>emulate this?

Actually, it sounds like "stty -lcase".  And it's obsolete, since
it's pretty safe to assume nowadays that terminals can do lower case.

You can always use isalpha() followed by tolower() if you need to make
sure your input is in lower case.