Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!aries5!lhf
From: lhf@aries5 (Luiz H. deFigueiredo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Dumb question: What IS a trigraph?
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Date: 16 Aug 89 16:20:42 GMT
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A trigraph is a 'escape sequence' to allow C sources to be written in
machines that do not have special characters like #{}.

The format of a trigraph is:

??=	meaning #
??(	meaning {
??)	meaning }

There are others but I don't remember them now. I'd have to check.
Anyway, it is not the kind of beast you'd be likely to meet...

(sorry to post but problems with mailer.)
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