Re: putting escape characters in files

[Jonathan Peterson]

At 10:32 11/05/01 +0100, you wrote:
>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.

You know, from the outside, Unix looks so well designed and clean and modern...


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