Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!ihdev!pdg From: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (P. D. Guthrie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Using the Commercial At sign in C Message-ID: <1086@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 17:49:31 EST Article-I.D.: ihdev.1086 Posted: Thu Dec 18 17:49:31 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 05:12:07 EST References: <1499@brl-adm.ARPA> <763@dg_rtp.UUCP> Reply-To: pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie) Organization: American Nasal Amputation Centre Lines: 12 In article <763@dg_rtp.UUCP> meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes: >Neither "@", "`", or "$" can be introduced into the C standard because they >are not in all character sets (such as 7-bit European, EBCDIC?) '`' (Back-tick) already is used in many C's for BCD. This did not make it into the standard, and is actually undocumented in most C compilers (BSD 4.1 has it I believe). -- Paul Guthrie ihnp4!ihdev!pdg This Brain left intentionally blank.