IBM Extended Characters

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.ge.com
Sat Apr 9 02:40:56 AEST 1988


In article <382 at nancy.UUCP> las at msudoc.UUCP (=P^ZAZPPPYPYXU	zQYhBYPYo^O) writes:
>Well on my machine running SCO XENIX/386 2.2.1 echo "\0376"
>yields \0376 and not a little square.

I just tried it on my machines, using 2.21(386) and 2.1.3(286), both sh
and ksh return a little square, and if I redirect into a file 'od'
agrees that the result is one byte. Perhaps you're using csh or something?
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