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From: "James E. Housley" <housley@pr-comm.com>
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Subject: How do I use extended ASCII characters in gcc
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I am writing/porting a program that uses the "extended" ASCII
characters.  The ones with bit 8 set.  This is causing a
"character constant too long" error.  I am compiling with
-fsigned-char.  Is this the cause or is there something else
I must do??

Jim Housley