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From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: error message" Unknown escape sequence"
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:26:48 GMT
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> Johny wrote:
> 
> Hi ,
> I get this error message when I tried to compile my program. Any body
> has any idea what it means?

Please don't hide your question in the subject line.  There are mail and
news readers that do not display it as part of the message display.  For
those people:
> error message" Unknown escape sequence"

It means, strangely enough, that you used an unknown escape sequence,
such as the \c in 
  foo = fopen("\crap","rb");

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