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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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