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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.1dev.6
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev lynx2.8.1dev.6 |
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Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:50:26 -0400 (EDT) |
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> On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, T.E.Dickey wrote:
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> > 1998-04-18 (2.8.1dev.6)
> > * convert \x escapes to octal form (reported by Claude Soma). - TD
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> That is an incorrect implementation of '\x' since ANSI C language treats
> parameters of '\x' as hexadecimal values. To use octal escapes, the
> proper syntax is '\[0-7][0-7][0-7]'.
not all of the compilers that Lynx is built with are ANSI compilers.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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