On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:38:32PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: > > You've just got the system to send a ^O character to the screen which will > > reset it gracefully. > > Yes, but also ^V before the ^O, like you said. > Do you know why? Anyone know why? No, the system just sends a ^O back at you. The ^V just tells bash to interperet the next character literally. Try ^VTAB and you'll get a ^I or try ^VBKSP and you'll get ^H, etc. HTH -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2
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