an odd question

From: Davison, Lee <Lee.Davison_at_merlincommunications.com>
Date: Thu Aug 9 12:33:08 2001

        would be this bunch... where did the convention of using "^x" to
        represent "Ctrl-x" come from? I wonder because you see that
        convention everywhere, but

I don't know where it started but when I was in school, a while ago now,
we had a teletype and a dial up to the local university to, I think, a
PDP11.
Anyway backspace was always echoed as ^h and break as ^c. I don't recall
ever seeing any other control codes printed and some weren't. Control G
would ring the bell, a real one - not a bleep, for instance.

Lee.



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