Hi Brian Wood,
You said :
 BW> Can someone help me understand why different compilers treat this
 BW> code differently?  Specifically Borland(3.0-4.52) -vs-
 BW> Microsoft(8.00)
 BW>     cout << "The value of /a is " << (char)'/a' << endl;
 BW> Borland will send a backslash.  Microsoft, the letter a.
 Borland compilers does not support multi-character, character constants so 
it just evalutes to first character.. It is perfectly normal that borland 
sends a backslash.. I don't know the case with microsoft compilers but I 
guess the difference is related with this multi character thing..
                                                Berk
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