Displaying non-printable characters on a SPARC (or any other Unix system)

[John Gordon]

robert at nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert Angelino) writes:

>I'm writing some code that utilizes a primitive tty interface.
>I would like to display non-printable characters on my
>unix system.  I know in DOS this can be done like so
>	printf("%c",175);	(which happens to display a double >)


	This works in DOS because DOS has an "extended character set", that
is, it has 256 defined characters instead of only 128.  This is definitely
*not* portable to other machines.


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