From: kerr@wizard.net ("Shane Kerr") Subject: Re: using cat on binary files (CTRL-Z trauma) 1 Nov 1996 06:07:35 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199611011255.HAA12013.cygnus.gnu-win32@wizard.wizard.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter), dj@delorie.com, jqb@netcom.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com, jjf@dsbc.icl.co.uk X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > The return key on dumb terminals always generates CR, not LF; no one > ever turns off just icrnl, it was added in the SysIII version of > termio for completeness. Even in DOS the enter key has to be I don't know about dumb terminals, but I have been on some X-terminals, admittedly too smart for their own damn good, who gave ^J when the enter key was pressed, rather than ^M. Of course, those X-terms were evil - they didn't have escape keys! ^[ is _not_ an acceptable way to press escape. -- Shani Kerr For my PGP key, finger shani@yosemite.ctiis.com kerr@wizard.net Reston, Virginia http://www.wizard.net/~kerr/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".