to "OR" or not to "OR"

[Rache McGregor]

tmjones at eos.ncsu.edu (TOMMIE MILES JONES) writes:

> Ok folks this is a real stupid problem.
> I have a (don't laugh, I'm a poor broke college student) tandy 1000sx
> it is IBM compatible (suprise!) and run quick C ver 2.5 academic ver.
> (only $45 I told you I was cheap)
> this peice of sh-- will not allow me to write the OR symbol "|"
> it is on key 4 on the numeric key pad.  I tried all different combinations
> of numlock and shift.  it will just move the cursor or highlight the text.
> I'm tired of Demorgan's law (a | b= !(a & b)) isnt there a way to get around 
> I read somewhere that C has taken into consideration that some machines do
> not have all the funky symbols and there are ways to get around.
> 
> 
> help me please

Don't feel too badly, I'm also using Academic QuickC, and I had to pay $52 
for it!

According to The_Waite_Group's_Essential_Guide_to_ANSI_C, the trigraph 
sequence to represent | is ??!.  I haven't tried using them myself (and can't 
at the moment,, or I'd check), but I'd expect the trigraphs to work in 2.5, 
since it was released after the ANSI standard.

Reference: [title above], Naba Barkakati, 1988.  ISBN 0-672-22673-1

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