Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!hropus!jgy
From: jgy@hropus.UUCP (John Young)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Inserting 100 zeroes
Message-ID: <280@hropus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 15:58:56 GMT
References: <3999@freja.dk>
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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> How do I insert one hundred zeroes in a buffer?  For any non-digit character I
> just do "C-u 1 0 0 <ch>", but of course, this does not work for digits.  How
> can it be done, less of typing 100 zeroes manually.
> Rene' Seindal, U. of Copenhagen, Denmark. (seindal@diku.dk)

Try "C-u 1 0 0 C-q 0 6 0"
The ^Q lets you follow with the 3 digit octal code of the character you want.

Not to clean but........