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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 16:53:17 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Chia <chia AT top DOT net>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Vanishing & Symbol...
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Chia wrote:
> 
> I have a class JG_MENUOPT.
> 
> The only constructor is:
> 
> JG_MENUOPT( char *n, void (*cb)(void) )
>   {
>     allegro_exit();
>     cout << n;
>     exit(0);
>   }
> 
> When I send the string, "&Show Barquie", it prints out, "Show Barquie"
> without the &.
> 
>     JG_MENUOPT *TheOpt = new JG_MENUOPT( "&Show Barquie", ShowBarquieProc );
> 
> No other strings seem to suffer from this phenomenon.  When I made a simple
> program to test it, it printed the & like it should.

That is strange.  Can you post a complete, compilable piece of code that
demonstrates it?
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Nate Eldredge
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