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From: "Gordon L. Scott" <Gordon AT apis DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: What the??
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 09:45:37 GMT
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Message-ID: <822908737.snews.post.Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk>
References: <822863893snz AT trenham DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> <310BFB89 DOT 5F7E8E74 AT alcyone DOT com>
Reply-To: Gordon Scott <Gordon AT apis DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <310BFB89 DOT 5F7E8E74 AT alcyone DOT com>
           max AT alcyone DOT com "Erik Max Francis" writes:

> This is because the backslash means special things in a C  string.
> You need to escape the strings, as in:
> 
>     #include "c:\\djgpp\\lang\\cxx\iostream.h"

Right.   FWIW,  whilst  some   applications   demand   backslashes
(including  the  user-interface  command.com), raw DOS will accept
either forward or backward slashes, as will most applications that
don't actually check or reject forward slashes.

DJGPP, and most other C compilers, accept  (prefer?)  the  non-dos
convention of forward slashes.

Regards,
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