IBM Extended Characters

Wolf N. Paul wnp at dcs.UUCP
Sun Apr 17 12:54:09 AEST 1988


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

I suspect you are using the C-Shell, which has its own built-in echo
which does not know anything about octal character escapes.

Try 

	/bin/echo "\0376"

and see if that does not give the desired result.
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