From: Luke Palmer <lop@duke.edu>
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  Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:16:17 -0500

learning some new tricks....

since we are all used to using all the tapestry stuff and learning about c
strings is next week, it's kinda hard for most of us to use things like atoi
that require c strings.  we have been kinda hidden from all this stuff
through previous classes....   to figure out how atoi and other things work,
look at the Astrachan source code.  i put it up on my computer at

http://mp3.dorm.duke.edu/tapestry

the way i got atoi to work (the way astrachan does it) is this:
atoi(anystring.c_str())

good luck guys
-luke