> I know that the control key on the DEC terminals stripped off the high order
> bit on the character that followed.
I think that's just the ascii code at work here.
>
> The Control-G series would sound the bell on either the VT100 or LA34.
>
> the G character is an octal 107
> Control-G sends out an octal 007 which is the bell
> All sorts of modem, printer, and terminal combinations used the entire ASCII
> character set.
>
> When we replaced our VT52's we found out you could send out series of cursor
> control codes on VT100's to move the cursor and then output a character.
> Early star trek games on video terminals used this instead of sending out
> spaces and characters. You could also plot line graphs and barcharts using
> control codes.
>
> Mike
> mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu
Control-G is an Octal 0x7 AKA Decimal 7 and Hex 0x7...
Control-H (backspace) is Octal 010 AKA Decimal 8 and Hex 0x8.. H is
110 Octal 72 Decimal and 48 hex.
Octal 107 is a G... Octal 110 an H...
>From the man page on this unix box
Oct Dec Hex Char Oct Dec Hex Char
007 7 07 BEL '\a' 107 71 47 G
010 8 08 BS '\b' 110 72 48 H
Anyone know what \a is?
012 shows \n (newline)a 08 shows as \t (tab) what's \a alert?
Bill
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