Path: utzoo!attcan!nebulus!tslanpar!ram
From: ram@tslanpar.UUCP (ram)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need help reading a file with unusual name(s)
Summary: Oops...
Keywords: help!
Message-ID: <132@tslanpar.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 89 15:32:37 GMT
References: <579@netcom.UUCP> <123@tslanpar.UUCP> <1460@auspex.auspex.com>
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In article <1460@auspex.auspex.com>, guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
> >	to edit "maps\033w" type "vi maps\\033w".  This interprets the
> >backslash as a literal charachter rather that the introducer to a special
> >charachter.
> 
> "\033" doesn't mean "the character backslash, followed by the character
> '0', followed by...", it means "the character with the octal value 33",
> also known as "escape".  (He said "non-graphic character, and "\", "0",
> and "3" are all graphic.)  To type in that character, you'd have to hit
> the <ESC> key, or its moral equivalent, on your keyboard (or resort to
> some trickery involving backquotes or something like that). 

Of course, you are absolutely right.  In my haste I misread the question
and thus provided an answer to the wrong question.

Sorry,
Regards,
Richard Meesters.