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List:       apache-httpd-dev
Subject:    Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3/cgi-bin printenv
From:       Ben Laurie <ben () algroup ! co ! uk>
Date:       1999-11-30 21:26:30
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Marc Slemko wrote:
> >   5. surround values with quotes to allow one to better recognize newlines (as
> >      in SERVER_SIGNATURE) and whitespaces and also print newlines
> >      as \n and " as \" for a more Shell- and C-style syntax.
> 
> Is it really standard to not display "'s normally, but to stick a \ in
> front of them?  I don't see that much.

Standard or not, if you are going to do it, you really ought to replace
\ with \\, too.

Cheers,

Ben.

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