an odd question

From: Matt London <matt_at_knm.yi.org>
Date: Thu Aug 16 16:56:21 2001

Hi,

[big cut]
> Control-G is an Octal 0x7 AKA Decimal 7 and Hex 0x7...
>
> >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?

I always learnt \a as "Audiable Bell" - I guess it depends on where you
look tho :&)

-- Matt

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