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From: richard%aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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Subject: icon labels (g
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Date: 22 Feb 89 19:02:59 GMT
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> "escape" (^[) to 2 characters (^ and [). (Maybe the mail will change these
> escapes to ^ and [, I don't know, they left here as escapes.)

Or maybe it won't, and everyone in the world will get their icons labelled
`hostname` (and I'm running X11!).

If you want a control character in a shell script, various options are
available.  You could use /usr/5bin/echo '\033' (not /bin/echo) or any of
the other programs that understand octal escapes (eg echo x | tr x
'\007').

-- Richard