Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!tjb From: tjb@Apple.COM (Tom Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Generating Octal/Hex Codes from Bourne Shell Keywords: Bourne Shell Fortune Message-ID: <15638@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 16 Aug 88 15:49:29 GMT References: <118@gillxp> Reply-To: tjb@apple.com.UUCP (Tom Barrett) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 23 In article <118@gillxp> rg@gillxp (Richard J. Gill) writes: > echo "\007" # 0x07 > echo "\0212" # 0x8a > ... > >On my Fortune 32:16 (Forpro 2.0 - Sys 3v7 & BSD 4.3), however, >the string is simply displayed as a literal. Any ideas on how I >can generate the fully ASCII set from the Bourne shell on the >Fortune? Could you be using csh on your Fortune? Csh has a builtin echo command which behaves differently than echo in Bourne shell echo. Try using /bin/echo instead of echo. - Tom Barrett (408) 973-3364 Apple Computer MS 27AQ 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino CA 95014 {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual,unisoft}!apple!tjb OR tjb@apple.apple.com Tom Barrett (408) 973-3364 Apple Computer MS 27AQ 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino CA 95014 {amdahl,decwrl,hplabs,sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual,unisoft}!apple!tjb OR tjb@apple.apple.com