Question on backslash in string in define

[Sean Fagan]

In article <2483 at polari.UUCP> 6sigma2 at polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews) writes:
>Anyways, just for everyone's information, the Microsoft C compiler
>that comes with SCO's version of Unix botches this.  It appears to
>escape the first character of the next line (so in fact, my question
>wasn't even correct.)

Uhm, I just tried it (/bin/cc, not cc_of_the_week 8-)), and it worked
properly.  The compiler did not change in that respect for UNIX 3.2;
however, versions of the compiler did change between XENIX and UNIX.  If
that's what you're using, then there is an update which will fix it.

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