Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!bria!mike
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Special character constants
Message-ID: <363@bria>
Date: 17 Jan 91 22:07:24 GMT
References: <1292@mti.mti.com>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike (Michael Stefanik)
Organization: Briareus Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
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In article <1292@mti.mti.com> adrian@mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy) writes:
>I only have K&R2, not the Standard.  On a machine whose character set does
>not support special characters like tab and backspace, what happens to
>character constants like '\t' and '\b'?  Is there some special value they
>get set to (e.g., ' ' or '\0') instead?  Or is this issue left undefined?

That is dependant on the C preprocessor that runs on your machine; however,
what character set are you using that doesn't support tabs or backspace?
Just curious ...
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