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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: the =+ operator
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Rob wrote:

> I've searched far and wide on search engines to find out what the =+
> operator does, to no avail.

it's the predecessor to +=. It's the reason people put spaces around the
'=' sign in C, going back to this old way of doing a +=. If you can find
some old ca. 1976 Unix V6 documents, you'll find the description in there.
Sorry, you can't have mine.

ron


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