From: Joe Wright <wrightj AT exis DOT net>
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Subject: Re: what about the "\"
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:34:59 -0500
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Tom Wheeley wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, in article <32B457C8 DOT 4940 AT exis DOT net>
>      wrightj AT exis DOT net "Joe Wright" wrote:
>
> > Is it worth pointing out that strcpy() doesn't know anything about
> > escapes?
> > It is only when you give it to printf() that things go awry.
> 
> Sorry?  I thought printf didn't know about escapes either?  Maybe I was
> under the mistaken impression that the escapes were `evaluated' at compile
> time by the compiler...
> 
You got me there.  Of course it IS the compiler that evaluates the '\' 
escapes in all cases.  I stand corrected and slightly embarrassed.

Joe Wright