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Subject: formfeeds in C source
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Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 06:53:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 06:53:21 1985
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What does C do with ^L (formfeed) in a source file?  I don't mean anywhere,
just where one would logically put it for throwing a page on a printer, say
to split functions to separate pages.  I cannot find a reference to this
anywhere in K&R.  On a Vax running Ultrix, the pre-processor passes the ^L
through unchanged, and neither cc nor lint complain.  Is ^L universally
accepted by C compilers?
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