Re: putting escape characters in files

[Dave Hodgkinson]

Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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?  :-)

Stallman used to have a long rant about ^S/^Q that shipped with
the emacs source. Wonder if it's still there.

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