Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jk3k+
From: jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: "%#s"?
Message-ID: <AWbStey00Uk4E0S14d@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 May 88 22:32:10 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
Lines: 9

It would be nice for printf et al.  to have a %#s format specifier,
to convert unprintable characters into backslash escapes.  Thus
	printf ("%#s", "\b\fhi\n\207");
would be equivalent to
	printf ("\\b\\fhi\\n\\207");
Has anyone else thought of this?  Is it a good idea?  Can it be put
in the standard?

--Joe