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Mike, Yes, to the best of my knowledge, octal constants are always 8 bits and checking K&R (2nd Edition) the escape may be followed by 1, 2 or 3 octal digits (it doesn't say may *only* be followed, but that's implied). However, when dealing with hex it states that there is no limit on the number of digits, but the behavior is undefined if the resulting character value exceeds that of the largest character. Trying this little test in Lattice 5.05: main() { printf("\0330\n"); printf("\x1b0\n"); } generates a warning about a hex constant being too large for char but generates no warning about the octal string. However, looking at the output…both printf()s generate the same string of an escape followed by the character "0" and a newline. Don