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From: jss@sftri.UUCP (J.S.Schwarz)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Backquote in C
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Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 10:20:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 12 10:20:33 1984
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A few days ago I posted an item suggesting that backquote(`) 
was an unused character in C.  Since then several people
have sent me mail "reminding" me that it is used in some
dialects of C for alternative forms of character constants.

Thanks to those who sent me mail.  

	Jerry Schwarz
	btlunix!jss