Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!seanf
From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Question on backslash in string in define
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.005727.4829@sco.COM>
Date: 13 Sep 90 04:57:27 GMT
References: <2480@polari.UUCP> <1990Sep9.224807.17776@zoo.toronto.edu> <2483@polari.UUCP>
Reply-To: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Fagan)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <2483@polari.UUCP> 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>Anyways, just for everyone's information, the Microsoft C compiler
>that comes with SCO's version of Unix botches this.  It appears to
>escape the first character of the next line (so in fact, my question
>wasn't even correct.)

Uhm, I just tried it (/bin/cc, not cc_of_the_week 8-)), and it worked
properly.  The compiler did not change in that respect for UNIX 3.2;
however, versions of the compiler did change between XENIX and UNIX.  If
that's what you're using, then there is an update which will fix it.

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