Special character constants

[uunet!bria!mike]

In article <1292 at mti.mti.com> adrian at mti.UUCP (Adrian McCarthy) writes:
>I only have K&R2, not the Standard.  On a machine whose character set does
>not support special characters like tab and backspace, what happens to
>character constants like '\t' and '\b'?  Is there some special value they
>get set to (e.g., ' ' or '\0') instead?  Or is this issue left undefined?

That is dependant on the C preprocessor that runs on your machine; however,
what character set are you using that doesn't support tabs or backspace?
Just curious ...
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