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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:19:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject:   Re: script/typescript ^Ms - why?
Message-ID:  <199610240819.KAA02493@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610240751.IAA02009@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Oct 24, 96 08:51:03 am"

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As Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> Is there a (historical) reason why ^Ms appear in every typescript?

Because everything appears there, including but not limited to
^H, ^?, ^M, ^[, and ^J (where the latter are usually displayed as
line breaks by your editor ;).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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