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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:50:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1)
Message-ID:  <200001181950.LAA17101@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Hagan <dhagan@cs.vt.edu>
To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1)
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:30:59 -0500 (EST)

 On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Archie Cobbs wrote:
 
 > Looks great, thanks. .. but why "\e000" and not "\000" ?
 
 Well, I'm not familiar with man-page source formats (Troff?), but that's
 what it appears to take to make a \000 appear in the output.  For
 reference, refer to lines 90-106 where the ANSI escape sequences are
 listed.  \000 resulted in \00 when I tried it.
 
 Daniel
 
 -- 
 Daniel Hagan                                             Computer Science CSE
 dhagan@cs.vt.edu                                http://www.cs.vt.edu/~dhagan/
 
 


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