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From: luj@gus16.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun Lu)
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Subject: Re: more ' fun!!!
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Date: 13 Mar 91 22:50:58 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.211216.8061@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:
>OK, in csh, I want to have this string echo'd...     ^[=@'^[H8
>Problem being, I can't get the ' to be echo'd.
>(I am putting this command into a shell script.)
>If I use the command...
>
>echo '=@'H8'
>
>...it thinks the string to be echo'd ends at the second '
>If I use the command...
>
>echo '=@\'H8'
>
>...it sees the \ as a character, thus moving the the wrong
>cursor position (this is a terminal plotting command).
>
>Any ideas?
>
Try

	echo "^[=@'^[H8"
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