Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sftri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxm!sftig!sftri!jss From: jss@sftri.UUCP (J.S.Schwarz) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Backquote in C Message-ID: <264@sftri.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 10:20:33 EST Article-I.D.: sftri.264 Posted: Wed Dec 12 10:20:33 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:32:31 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Summit N.J. Lines: 9 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