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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: weird error messages from __COPYRIGHT macro 
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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 21:25:14 +0200, Mark Murray wrote:

> ...and it does not like the multi-line string. You may need to
> double-escape the \n's (like \\n) to get them into the .ident
> line symbolically.
> 
> (I just checked - it worked!)

Now we just need someone with a NetBSD box handy to let us know whether
double-escaping the newlines works alright there.  I have a feeling
it won't, which probably means we need to see if we can fix our
implementation of __IDSTRING().

I've sent private mail to Peter, who introduced this implementation of
__IDSTRING in rev 1.26 of cdefs.h.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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