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#Strings in C

    23-Nov-94 11:17:39
Sb: #44184-#Strings in C
Fm: Shraddhan 70374,754
To: Peter Wade 100265,2740
> According to Kernighan and Ritchie the \xnn syntax can have as many > hex digits as you like. Did these K & R guys do any _real_ programming, I wonder? Back in the days when they invented C, surely all characters were at most 8 bits long. Thanks for your help. Regards, Shraddhan (via AP from Hertfordshire, England)