From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!greg Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: cpp quoting tricks?? - (nf) Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2395 Posted: Wed Oct 20 00:17:35 1982 Received: Fri Oct 22 01:34:27 1982 References: uiucdcs.869 One thing that DOES work is: #define NAME(a) "/dev/a" then NAME(mt0) will expand (believe it or not) to "/dev/mt0". I wish I could claim it was original, but I found it hidden in some code from UCB once......