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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: CTRL(X) in ANSI standard
Message-ID: <5569@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-May-85 16:33:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  6 16:33:29 1985
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> Here's a silly though:  since '\xFC' has been added to ANSI C for hex
> characters, how about '\^G' for control characters, ala ICON?  I never
> did like the CTRL macro.

As has been said before, the right way to do this is:

	#define	BEL	'\007'

or something along those lines.  The character is "BEL", numbered 7 decimal
in the ASCII code; control-G is just the way you type it on many (but not
necessarily all) terminals.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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