miscfx.h

Miscelaneous functions

These functions are declared here because, frankly, they wouldn't fit anywhere else. Some of them should be considered deprecated. All in due course, I suppose.

Original banner, legalese and change history follow.

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 **  FILE:     miscfx.h                                                     **
 **  AUTHORS:  Alexios                                                      **
 **  REVISION: A, June 94                                                   **
 **  PURPOSE:  Interface to miscfx.h, implementing various useful functs.   **
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 *
 * $Id: miscfx.h,v 1.3 2001/04/22 14:49:04 alexios Exp $
 *
 * $Log: miscfx.h,v $
 * Revision 1.3  2001/04/22 14:49:04  alexios
 * Merged in leftover 0.99.2 changes and additional bug fixes.
 *
 * Revision 0.8  1999/07/18 21:13:24  alexios
 * Supplied own version of usleep for borken (sic) bastard
 * operating systems that don't define it.
 *
 * Revision 0.7  1998/12/27 15:19:19  alexios
 * Moved functions that didn't really belong here to other
 * header files.
 *
 * Revision 0.6  1998/08/14 11:23:21  alexios
 * Added long-awaited function stripspace() to remove leading
 * and trailing white space from a string.
 *
 * Revision 0.5  1997/11/06 20:03:39  alexios
 * Added GPL legalese to the top of this file.
 *
 * Revision 0.4  1997/11/03 00:29:40  alexios
 * Optimised stgxlate for speed; created a new translation
 * function, faststgxlate that is suitable for very fast
 * applications with complete translation tables.
 *
 * Revision 0.3  1997/09/12 12:45:25  alexios
 * Added lowerc() and upperc() functions.
 *
 * Revision 0.2  1997/08/30 12:54:20  alexios
 * Removed bladcommand(), replaced it by bbsdcommand() (different
 * syntax).
 *
 * Revision 0.1  1997/08/26 15:48:53  alexios
 * First registered revision. Adequate.
 *
 *
 *

rnd

A simple way to get (pseudo-)random numbers

randomize

Seed the random number generator.

min

Returns the minimum of two numbers.

max

Returns the maximum of two numbers.

alcmem

Safe memory allocation.

lowerc

Convert a string to lower case.

upperc

Convert a string to upper case.

stripspace

Strips leading and trailing white space.

sameto

Case-insensitive initial substring match.

sameas

Case-insensitive string match.

zeropad

Zero-pads a string array.

stgxlate

Performs character-for-character string translation.

faststgxlate

Performs faster character-for-character string translation.

bbsdcommand

Sends a command to the BBS daemon.

search

Search a string for a set of keywords.

runmodule

Executes a module.

runcommand

Executes a command.

editor

Edit a file.

gopage

Call the menu manager.

fcopy

Copy a file.

usleep

Sleep for a given number of microseconds.

mkfname

Format a filename.

Author:

Alexios

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