Re:
> Presumably (?) there's a FORTRAN equivalent of the C library 'itoa()'
> function.

BTW, itoa isn't in the "standard" libraries for all Unix systems...
you can usually find ltoa() on a few more systems.  On our HP-UX 10.20
system, we have ltoa() but no itoa().  On our Linux Redhat system,
*neither* is in the "standard" libraries :(

I mentioned it because your phrase "C library function" hit one of
my hot buttons :)

You could say that there's no such thing as "C library functions".
There *are* libraries of functions that are available on various releases
of Unix (and, indeed, most are intended to be called from C) ...
but that doesn't give them the same air of respectability that the phrase
"C library function" would seem to bestow.  I guess I'm trying to say
that on MPE the word "intrinsic" carries certain connotations (including
documentation, safety, robustness, and availability on all systems) ...
connotations that don't apply to most routines people call "C library
functions" on Unix :)

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