BW>Can someone help me understand why different compilers treat this code
BW>differently?  Specifically Borland(3.0-4.52) -vs- Microsoft(8.00)
BW>    cout << "The value of /a is " << (char)'/a' << endl;
BW>Borland will send a backslash.  Microsoft, the letter a.
Shouldn't the above give an error? '/a' is more than one char. I think
you meant '\a' which is an escape code.
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