Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!gillxp!rg From: rg@gillxp (Richard J. Gill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Generating Octal/Hex Codes from Bourne Shell Keywords: Bourne Shell Fortune Message-ID: <118@gillxp> Date: 15 Aug 88 21:33:44 GMT Organization: Gill + Piette - PSG, Arlington, VA Lines: 20 I have the need be able to generate the full ASCII character set from the Bourne shell. There is no problem on my NCR Tower XP (System V); I simply use the following syntax: 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? Thanks. -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Dick Gill Gill & Piette / PSG (703)761-1110 ..uunet!gillxp!rg