How can I de-escape my strings at run time?

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva):
>meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
>> The C standard mandates that \r and \n have separate numeric values.
>
>That'll be fun for Microware and people using OS/9.

I once did a cross-compiler for OS/9.
OS/9 text files have lines terminated with 0x0D.
So I defined '\n' as 0x0D.

I had to define '\r' as something different from '\n'.
You guessed it.
I defined '\r' as 0x0A.

Shoot me now.
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Chip, the new t.b answer man      <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>