Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1) Message-ID: <200001182110.NAA24473@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: dhagan@cs.vt.edu (Daniel Hagan) Cc: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs), freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/15929 [patch] clarify manpage for printf(1) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:01:05 -0800 (PST) Daniel Hagan writes: > > 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. Ah, of course.. my ignorance :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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