From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jan 18 11:50: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC401500D for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA17101; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:50:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200001181950.LAA17101@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Daniel Hagan Subject: Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1) Reply-To: Daniel Hagan Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Daniel Hagan To: Archie Cobbs 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