Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!osiris.cso.uiuc.edu!gordon From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Displaying non-printable characters on a SPARC (or any other Unix system) Message-ID: <1991May2.211527.20657@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 2 May 91 21:15:27 GMT References: <6197@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 17 robert@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino) writes: >I'm writing some code that utilizes a primitive tty interface. >I would like to display non-printable characters on my >unix system. I know in DOS this can be done like so > printf("%c",175); (which happens to display a double >) This works in DOS because DOS has an "extended character set", that is, it has 256 defined characters instead of only 128. This is definitely *not* portable to other machines. --- John Gordon Internet: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu #include gordon@cerl.cecer.army.mil #include