CTRL(X) in ANSI standard
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Tue May 7 06:33:29 AEST 1985
> Here's a silly though: since '\xFC' has been added to ANSI C for hex
> characters, how about '\^G' for control characters, ala ICON? I never
> did like the CTRL macro.
As has been said before, the right way to do this is:
#define BEL '\007'
or something along those lines. The character is "BEL", numbered 7 decimal
in the ASCII code; control-G is just the way you type it on many (but not
necessarily all) terminals.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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