--- rdorch.c-orig	Mon May 18 02:22:54 1998
+++ rdorch.c	Tue Jul  7 01:27:22 1998
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 #include "cs.h"			/*			RDORCH.C	*/
 #include <ctype.h>
 
+			       	/* Modification of backslash line-extender 
+			     * system so it does not operate if the char
+			     * immediately following is printable and not
+			     * a ";", or "/".  See label keep_backslash.
+			     *
+			     * Robin Whittle 7 July 1998.
+			     */ 
+
 #ifdef DOSGCC
 #include <unistd.h>
 #endif
@@ -249,12 +257,45 @@
 		}
 	      }
 	    }
-	    else {		/* Error here */
+	    else {			      /* We arrive here because a 
+	         			  * backslash was found, but not
+					  * followed by a new-line, ";"
+					  * or "/" comment - after any
+					  * whitespace was skipped.
+					  * Rather than continue as if
+					  * this is a line-continue 
+					  * situation, we assume that
+					  * whoever wrote the .orc file
+					  * actually wanted a backslash
+					  * here - perhaps as part of
+					  * a quoted string of some kind.
+					  * 
+					  * The following code works if
+					  * the backslash is immediately
+					  * followed by a printable
+					  * character that we want to 
+					  * retain.  That character has
+					  * been read into c by the test 
+					  * above for whitespace.
+					  * We want to keep it, so we
+					  * write it to the output buffer 
+					  * and skip over the lines below
+					  * which implement the line
+					  * continuation actions.
+					  *
+					  * The original comment at this
+					  * place said:
+					  */
+					  	/* Error here */
+	            *cp++ = c;
+		    goto keep_backslash;
+	    
 	    }
 	    *(cp-1) = ' ';
 	    srccnt++;                       /*      record a fakeline */
 	    srclin[++lincnt] = 0;
 	    linadr[lincnt] = cp;
+	keep_backslash:	
 	  }
           else if (c == '\n') {			/* at each new line */
             char *lp = linadr[lincnt];