>>>>> thus on Mon, 8 Jun 1998 01:17:51 -0400, Baktor wrote:
>> I've suggested, for no specific reason, that windows users replace >this
>> with '\005' (and, I admit, I've no idea what character \e >resolves to.
> Thank you for the fix, it works. As to what \e resolves to, shrug, even
> 3 unix coders i know have never even heard of this nor do their
> compilers support it. (don't really care either)
Quite a few shells and/or non-BSD echo implementations consider \e as
shorthand for escape (aka \033, 33 octal, or '^[').
d.
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