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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin,                           JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pre#defined cpp symbols
Message-ID: <113@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 09:33:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: aiva.113
Posted: Tue Jul 28 09:33:39 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Jul-87 07:09:15 EDT
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Reply-To: richard@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Richard Tobin,E32 SB x212E,,2295119)
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In article <657@hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>I've tried using strings to find these and it doesn't always seem to
>work.  For example, 'strings /lib/cpp | grep vax' on a 4.3 system
>won't show 'vax' as being predefined, but it is.  Looking at the source

True, but this:

   strings -3 /lib/cpp | grep vax

works just fine.
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