Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!homxb!gemini From: gemini@homxb.UUCP (Rick Richardson) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: #define kinda stuff Message-ID: <1427@homxb.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Apr-86 12:11:06 EST Article-I.D.: homxb.1427 Posted: Sat Apr 12 12:11:06 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Apr-86 20:22:57 EST References: <2532@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: PC Research, Inc. Lines: 9 If you want to use (-: and :-) as your comment delimiters, then you have to use something like "sed" to preprocess the code. Here's the sequence of commands you need to execute: sed -e 's/(-:/\/*/g' -e 's/:-)/*\//g' xxx.c mv xxx.c source.c cc -c source.c Don't forget the "mv". It is the most critical part of getting the C right :-)