Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: IBM Extended Characters
Message-ID: <10330@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 8 Apr 88 16:40:56 GMT
References: <651@jclyde.UUCP> <256@conexch.UUCP> <382@nancy.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <382@nancy.UUCP> las@msudoc.UUCP (=P^ZAZPPPYPYXU	zQYhBYPYo^O) writes:
>Well on my machine running SCO XENIX/386 2.2.1 echo "\0376"
>yields \0376 and not a little square.

I just tried it on my machines, using 2.21(386) and 2.1.3(286), both sh
and ksh return a little square, and if I redirect into a file 'od'
agrees that the result is one byte. Perhaps you're using csh or something?
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