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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 13:50:32 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199810011750.NAA29390@indy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: pete AT restall DOT net
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <199810011833.SAA05103@restallnet.demon.co.uk> (message from
Junior System Administrator on Thu, 1 Oct 1998 18:33:50 GMT)
Subject: Re: Trigraphs ???

> Hi people.  I'm just posting to ask what a 'Trigraph' is ?  The GCC
> documentation says I 'don't want to know about this brain-damage'.

Three characters that mean one other.

For example, some keyboards don't have the [ key, so ??( can be typed
in instead.

Example:

	foo??(i??) = '??/n';

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