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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: IBM Extended Characters
Message-ID: <59@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 02:54:09 GMT
References: <651@jclyde.UUCP> <256@conexch.UUCP> <382@nancy.UUCP> <10330@steinmetz.ge.com> <137@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <382@nancy.UUCP> las@msudoc.UUCP writes:
>Well on my machine running SCO XENIX/386 2.2.1 echo "\0376"
>yields \0376 and not a little square.

I suspect you are using the C-Shell, which has its own built-in echo
which does not know anything about octal character escapes.

Try 

	/bin/echo "\0376"

and see if that does not give the desired result.
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