[pax]

Нашел тут одну интересную билиотечку стандартных функций... вот что она поддерживает:

he SFL provides about 450 functions that cover these areas:
- Compression, encryption, and encoding;
- Datatype conversion and formatting;
- Dates, times, and calendars;
- Directory and environment access;
- User and process groups;
- Inverted bitmap indices;
- Symbol tables;
- Error message files;
- Configuration files;
- String manipulation and searching;
- File access;
- Internet socket access;
- Internet programming (MIME, CGI);
- SMTP (e-mail) access;
- Server (batch) programming;
- Program tracing.

Сайт библиотеки вот тут:
http://www.imatix.com/html/sfl/