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From: dant@tekla.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comparing chars to constants
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 15:22:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 15:22:17 1987
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Henry Spencer writes:
>
>For those barbarous folk who prefer hexadecimal to octal (God clearly meant
>man to use octal, the thumbs are parity bits), X3J11 has added hex string
>escapes.

What's the format of these hex string escapes?  [If God wanted people to use
octal, why are computers made with 16 or 32 bit words?  (Yes, I know some
computers have 36 bit words, but they are clearly meant for space aliens
from Arcturus.)]

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Dan Tilque
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