FA> Talking about strcmp() i have noticed something that nobody mentioned,
FA> it actually returns the ascii code of the character it fails on in str1, 
FA> and negates it if *str2 > *str1. 

No, that's what YOUR implementation of strcmp() happens to do,
what strcmp() does is just return 0, negative or positive.  From
memory, PDPCLIB returns the subtraction of the two elements
being compared.  BFN.  Paul.
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