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     Name
          memicmp - Compares buffers byte-by-byte.

     Syntax
          #include <memory.h>
          #include <string.h>

          int memicmp (buf1, buf2, count)
          void *buf1;
          void *buf2;
          unsigned count;


     Description
          The memicmp function compares the first count characters of
          buf1 and buf2 byte-by-byte, without regard to the case of
          letters in the two buffers; that is, uppercase (capital) and
          lowercase letters are considered equivalent. All uppercase
          letters in buf1 and buf2 are converted to lowercase before
          the comparison.  The memicmp function returns a value
          indicating the relationship of buf1 and buf2, as follows:

          Value               Meaning
          Less than zero      buf1 less than buf2

          Zero                buf1 identical to buf2

          Greater than zero   buf1 greater than buf2

     Return Value
          The memicmp function returns an integer value, as described
          above.

     See Also
          memccpy(S), memchr(S), memcmp(S), memcpy(S), memset(S)

     Example
          #include <memory.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h>

          char first[100], second[100]; int result;

          main()
           {
                  strcpy(first, "Those Who Will Not Learn from
          History");
                  strcpy(second,"THOSE WHO WILL NOT LEARN FROM their
          mistakes");
                  /* Note that the 29th letter is right here ^ */

                  result = memicmp(first,second,29);   /* result is 0
          */
                  printf("%d\n",result);
           }

          Output:

          0

          This program uses memicmp to compare the the first 29
          letters of the strings named first and second without regard
          to the case of the letters.

                                                (printed 6/18/89)