Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!columbia!rutgers!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Distinguished pointers (was Re: Weird syscall returns) Message-ID: <6242@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 08:52:46 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6242 Posted: Fri Aug 7 08:52:46 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 01:11:06 EDT References: <1158@copper.TEK.COM> <6858@auspyr.UUCP> <17171@cca.CCA.COM> <274@nuchat.UUCP> <452@sugar.UUCP> <5193@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <5193@utcsri.UUCP> flaps@utcsri.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: - case '\n': -#ifndef OS9 - case '\r': -is WRONG. The test line should be: -#if '\n' != '\r' It's all wrong anyway -- in C, '\r' and '\n' represent distinct (whitespace) characters.