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
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