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From: disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (Gary Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: C/AmigaDos Problem
Message-ID: <5209@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 16:20:26 GMT
References: <905@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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From article <905@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, by jshortle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (John Shortle):
> I have written a simple command-line reverse polish notation calculator in C.
> If you want to compute (3 - 4 / 7), for example, you type, 'num 3 4 7 / -'.
> It works fine unless you end the command with a plus (+) character.  You
> must hit return twice, and the program doesn't recognize the plus character
> as part of the statement.  I wrote a short program to test this oddity.
> ---
> Does anyone know what causes this and/or how to fix it?

'+' means "continued on the next line" to DOS.  I don't know how you
could get around it.  You might have to substitute some other character
for the plus sign.






Gary





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