Re: putting escape characters in files

[Philip Newton]

Dominic Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 10:25:00PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > If your terminal has flow control enabled it will eat ^Q 
> > and ^S for you.
> > stty -ixon
> > removes this problem.
> 
> But then how do you pause that long ls listing when your
> less,more,pg,sed,awk&perl binaries are all fscked?  :-)

Use dd with the count= option for the first page, and with count= and skip=
for subsequent pages :)

Cheers,
Philip
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