From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP inconsistencies?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:27:14 -0800
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Andy Bober wrote:

> It's your nested double quotes.  How many strings are in the printf()
> line?

One.

> If you need to use the the backslashes as characters in the string, I
> believe they must be doubled. ( ie. "\\DEM_PATH\\ environment variable
> not set\n" )

Uh, folks, he's escaping double quote characters.  He's doing it perfectly
legally.

As for "random parse errors," I can't tell what he's referring to.

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