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From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
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Subject: Re: inetd.conf and perl
Keywords: inetd, perl, sh script...
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Date: 25 Jan 91 02:58:27 GMT
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In article <2141@njitgw.njit.edu> cdp@hertz.njit.edu (Chris Peckham) writes:
>
>Any ideas ?  Something I missed in the man page ?  Why is there a \015 (ctrl-O)
>in the input stream ? 

That's not a control-O.  Think octal.
It's a control-M, thirteen base ten, a <CR>.  As in LFCR.  
Networks seem to do that sort of thing.
-- 
Rodney