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    01-Aug-90  17:48:04
Sb: #5755-OSK - passwords?
Fm: Scott t. Griepentrog 72427,335
To: Mark Griffith 76070,41

>no one but you have seen these

A large number of people (okay, about 5 or 6 I know of) have and are using the
libraries I wrote.  I was planning on uploading the entire set anyways, I'll
just get to it a little faster now.

My replacement for printf is not something I revel in.  That is an example of a
case where I have had to follow the "OS9" standard of using writeln/ readln
calls, but needed to adjust to zero terminated strings used in C. I have two
functions, rdln() and wrln(), which are exact replacements of the standard
readln() and writeln(), except that they take 0 termination. I use these
primarily, instead of printf, as a lot of stuff is line based and works a heck
of a lot faster without the extra overhead of printf and standard i/o.  I have
duplicates to these routines which work the same in Unix and PC.

For conversion of numeric variables to their ascii expressions, I have the
routines char *dec(num,digits), and decl(), hex, hexl().  I tend to build
strings into a buffer with strcpy and then wrln() it.  I suppose I could write
a routine to handle this a little easier, but it would seldom be useful as the
overhead would again be there.  I will admit to using sprintf() on a few
occasions where space/speed is not a consideration.

As for input routines, I always write routines to do the specific function
required.  That way I don't have to contend with scanf's oddities.

StG