On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:14 +0100, Bryan Anderson wrote: > Type this in a (gnome) terminal: > > echo "this is ok \016 this is not but after \017 it is ok again" > > Same effect if you "cat" a file containing ^N and ^O to a terminal. > Someone sends me emails with embedded ^N and ^O. Pine barfs when > run in a GT. > > Is there a way to stop this happening other than being rude to them? > This echo statement displays exactly as typed for me with gnome-terminal 2.10.0 [jeff@eagle websites]$ echo "this is ok \016 this is not but after \017 it is ok again" this is ok \016 this is not but after \017 it is ok again [jeff@eagle websites]$ rpm -qa gnome-terminal gnome-terminal-2.10.0-2 [jeff@eagle websites]$ rpm -qa \*bash\* bash-3.0-31 [jeff@eagle websites]$ rpm -qf /bin/echo coreutils-5.2.1-48.1 [jeff@eagle websites]$ rpm -qf /bin/cat coreutils-5.2.1-48.1 Which bash are you running? and which coreutils? The echo & cat commands are part of the coreutils package.
