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From: ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com (Donald Ekman)
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Subject: Re: Using EDLIN to insert ^C in a file (???)
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Date: 11 Jun 91 16:11:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun11.145649.10912@noao.edu> buchholz@noao.edu (Nick Buchholz) writes:
>From article <1991Jun10.213629.1591@unlinfo.unl.edu>, by khawand@hoss.unl.edu (Nancy Khawand):
>> Using EDLIN, how can I insert the ^C character into a file?  
>> Right now it simply terminates the edit.
>> --
>> Nancy Khawand				Internet: khawand@hoss.unl.edu
>> University of Nebraska - Lincoln        Phone   : (402) 472-5663
>> Computing Resource Center               FAX     : (402) 472-5280
>
>
>try getting into insert mode and typeing 003 while holding down the alt key
>This enters the ascii character 3 (^C) into the file.
>
>
>Nick C Buchholz
>buchholz@yogi.tuc.noao.edu      | "Time is an illusion, Lunchtime doubly so"
>                                |                            - Ford Prefect
>Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.

In my edlin (PC-DOS 3.3) this doesn't work.  It escapes from insert mode
just as if you had pressed Ctrl-C.

I don't know how to do it either.  I tried ^V^C, but that didn't work.
Anybody got any other ideas?

-- 
Donald E. Ekman, Space Systems/Loral, Palo Alto, CA  ekman@wdl30.wdl.loral.com