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Re: Cat-ting binary files to the console



On 2001-02-11 14:02 +0100, Moritz Schulte <moritz@chaosdorf.de> wrote:
> Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de> writes:
> 
> > > 	# bash
> > > 	set PS1="^V^O whatever> "
> >  
> > Huh? Do you mean "export" instead of "set"? But the exported line
> > displays verbatim here? (potato)
> > 
> > ^V^O whatever>
> 
> ^V^O means you've to type Ctrl+V, Ctrl+O.
> 
> 	moritz

You snipped an important part of the posting. It was about making the
'Ctrl+V Ctrl+O' sequence part of the prompt itself in order to perform
auto-resets. That's at least how I understood Will...

Andre Berger                                [andre.berger@topmail.de]



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