On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:02:50PM -0700, karl williamson wrote: > changed by that. A leading 0 may have been so required before > standardization. I now regret throwing my first edition K&R away when > the standard came out.) p35 K&R first edition: "... In addition, an arbitrary byte-sized bit pattern can be generated by writing '\ddd' where ddd is one to three octal digits, as in: #define FORMFEED '\014' /* ASCII form feed */ "Thread Previous | Thread Next