On 20031112.1424, Bob Miller said ... > In a more serious vein, I have the same problem at TiVo, so I wrote > this script, which I called printloop. > > #!/bin/sh > while sleep 60 > do > echo -ne '\1' > done
When it runs, I see: ne \1 Show up on the screen. Server is FreeBSD. FreeBSD's echo doesn't have the 'e' flag, which allows for the escape characters. I tried using the escaped character insert mode in Vim. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug