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

[Robert Angelino]

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 will not work on my SPARC.  I've found out (through tracing) that
the following clears the screen:
	print("\33[H\33[2J");	(this also happens to work on VMS)

As you can see this is not what I would call intuitive.  Has anyone out
there discovered how I can go about doing this using simple printf
statements??

thanks in advance

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