Re: How to see the value of each char in a string?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>]

In article <as8pes$d3r$1@reader1.panix.com>,
David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <zX8F9.57$sA6.786@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>,
>Barry Margolin  <barmar@genuity.net> wrote:
>>In article <as345n$h78$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>>David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:
>><snip>
>>>Here's the reason for my question: figuring out this (taken 
>>>from *shell*):
>>>
>>>
>>>   20 ==/dkcjunk/pstree-19.3==> ls /tfile11--myexternals-opt
>>>   \a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a\a
>>>
>>>
>>>What in the world caused all those ^G's?
>>
>>Something was trying to ring the bell, but I'm not sure what.
>
>The problem is -- how to get *out* of it!
>
>^C^C does nothing.
>
>Nor does my keying a ^G or several of them.

I thought I answered this in my earlier post: You're running "more" or
"less", which uses "q" as the command to exit.

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