Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!ksr!jfw From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: How to write Trigraph like character sequences in a string (was:Re: to "OR" or not to "OR") Message-ID: <3798@ksr.com> Date: 31 May 91 16:03:09 GMT References: <1991May28.231253.5226@csrd.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@ksr.com Lines: 12 mycroft@goldman.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > and Borland doesn't even have trigraphs in its compiler anymore, > there's a program called trigraph.com that does the translation > for you, so just don't execute it! >This is sloppy programming on Borland's part. Why? Does gcc have an option to do trigraph translation, and ONLY trigraph translation, so that you can import a "portable character set" program into your local character set so you don't have to waste the time preprocessing trigraphs over and over again? If so, why is it part of gcc? Is it really true that the Free Software Foundation is a secret conspiracy by memory manufacturers?