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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SCCS/cftime clash
Keywords: %d%m%y%H%M%S SCCS cftime
Message-ID: <1990Jun14.211132.20855@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 21:11:32 GMT
References: <1056@nixsin.UUCP> <13120@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In-Reply-To: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)

In article <13120@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke (Doug Gwyn) writes:
| In article <1056@nixsin.UUCP> koerberm@nixsin.UUCP (Mathias Koerber) writes:
| >I got a problem involving SCCS. In my program (stored as an SCCS-file)
| >I use cftime(buf,"%d%m%y%H%M%S",&now) to generate a date/timestring
| 
| There is no really elegant solution to this.  One portable solution
| is to use instead
| 	{
| 	static char format[] = "%d%m%y%H?M%S";
| 	format[8] = '%';	/* darn that SCCS */
| 	cftime(buf,format,&now);
| 	}

(didn't we do this already?)

	static char format[] = "\045d\045m\045y\045H\045M\045S";

No runtime hacks needed.  I dare SCCS to find %M% in *that*!

Just another C hacker,
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