From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: problem with islower() in DJGPP
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 00:39:22 -0400
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Br5an wrote:
> 
>     Your program compiled and woked fine for me....   I was expecting a warning
> or error about the return type of void main() however.

Did you use the '-Wall' option, and do you have gcc 2.8.0 or 2.7.2.1? 
The newer version warns about void main().

>      Lowercase letters always returned  32  for me.  Made me wonder...  Are you
> using any type of foreign keyboard driver??  I wonder if that could cause a
> problem.   When you input an uppercase char does it echo to the screen as
> uppercase??

His problem was that islower() does not return the lowercase equivalent
of a character; it tests whether the character is lowercase and returns
a true or false value.  The correct function is tolower().

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